Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he reached the age of 15, Blair joined the Stoney Creek junior team, which plays at the junior C level. Canadian amateur hockey has four levels of juniors: junior C the lowest, junior B, Tier II junior A and Tier I (major) junior...
Players in Tier I are often very high NHL draft picks and have usually foregone higher education to play at that level. Tier II junior A is played at a slightly lower level, and involves far fewer drafted players. Many players in Tier II, however, go on to play collegiate hockey in the United States and Canada...
...Bachrach discounts the polls, saying, "Where you are is not where you will wind up." And as one political consultant put it, "The definitive poll will not be taken in April, from which a top tier of three candidates will emerge...
...future Congressional staffers, second tier administrators, and maybe business managers, the process of closing and re-opening nominations, determining election results with obtuse formulae and dealing with the headaches such actions cause is probably excellent training...
...addition, Du Plessis announced the reintroduction of the two-tier rand, which was in effect until 1983. Under this system, the U.S. dollar price of the "financial" rand will be set by the central bank and pegged lower than the "commercial" rand. Foreign investors will be able to buy South African stocks at the lower financial rate, but will be required to sell at that rate. The financial rands will not be allowed to leave South Africa, although nonresidents will be free to buy and sell title to them in other countries...