Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from being a mere appendage to the winning ticket, Walter Frederick Mondale turned out to be a considerable asset. With unflagging energy and unfailing good humor-even when his staff steered him to factory gates after shifts had changed-Mondale effectively worked the northern tier of the U.S. His assignment was to build bridges between Jimmy Carter and the sizable Democratic blocs that did not know the Georgian well: ethnics, labor, liberals...
Houn said he will only agree to such a meeting "when they admit that there is a grievance," and added that he may seek a hearing before the 20-member HSA board of trustees, the final tier in the company's internal grievance mechanism...
...conflict in another, much more important African tinderbox, South Africa. Already, the emotionally charged issue of the future of southern Africa's two white-ruled regimes was reflected, in varying ways, in passions and politics among the 136 million blacks in all of the 16 states in the tier of black Africa south of the equator (see box page...
...people are still holding back. The business with the bishops?he has to find a way to take the sting out of that. People are not against him, but they're not yet hot for him either." New England breaks down fairly neatly: Ford is ahead in the top tier of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; the more populous bottom rung of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island seems strong for Carter...
...There is an unfortunate temptation to separate Europe into north and south, to envision the north with liberal or social democratic governments that actively manage their societies and a lower tier governed by socialist and Communist alliances that will perpetuate the south as a less developed zone...