Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealing with foreign affairs." In Denmark and Norway, some leftists also had strong reservations about the missile plan. For a while it looked as if NATO might degenerate into what the West Germans had always feared it could become if left alone to shoulder the nuclear responsibility: a two-tier organization of small powers and a "directorate" of larger ones...
...operagoers moved through the gala ritual of the Metropolitan's opening night last week, they were met with an unfamiliar sight. Television lights glared down on the huge Chagall murals and curving marble staircases. Cameras panned the red-carpeted lobby. On the Grand Tier balcony, presumably sophisticated first-nighters pressed around to gawk at Met Tour Director Francis Robinson's TelePrompTer as he beamed at interviewees. The occasion was a live broadcast to public television's 282 U.S. stations, as well as to Canada and Mexico. "It's like a political convention," complained one elegant buff...
...clapping drowned out the hoarse shouts of protest, Allison made his way to the second tier and helped a security guard remove the demonstrator and his cohort from the building...
...American men's basketball team was an artistic success but a Scoreboard failure, finishing fifth. Hastily recruited from the second tier of amateur players-most of the best played instead in the Pan American Games-the youthful Americans were unschooled in international rules and woefully short on muscle and experience. Nevertheless, their fluid fakes and brilliant improvisations drew large crowds, even to their practice sessions. A bravura moment came when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence...
...money grab in only three months, creates an official split in the cartel's price structure. After three days of closed-door bickering between avaricious hard-liners like Iran and Algeria and so-called moderates like Saudi Arabia and tiny Qatar, the cartel finally settled on its two-tier pricing "compromise." In theory, it would let members' consciences be their guide in deciding just how much money to charge-anywhere from $18 to $23.50 per bbl. In practice, the scheme seems little more than a device for institutionalizing chaos, which in recent weeks has sent the price...