Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this life embarrassingly resembles a Fairfield Porter or F. Scott Fitzgerald universe, where every man had a yacht and every girl a debutante ball. Buckley says of his personal estate, "We desired a house by the sea and didn't see any particular reason why, if the whole Southern tier of Connecticut squats down on the sea, why we shouldn't be among those who squatted down in that part of Connecticut...
...same measures, but the Japanese were more successful. Japanese refrigerators now use only about half the electricity of the 1973 models, and air conditioners 20% less. A 19-inch television set that used 140 watts in 1973 today needs less than 95. The government also started a new three-tier pricing system for electricity that puts a surcharge on the rate for heavy residential users...
Drawing the portrait of this complex, two-tier economy was the job of Staff Writer Charles P. Alexander, who had the assistance of Reporter-Researchers Bernard Baumohl and Stephen Koepp, as well as TIME correspondents across the country, in Europe and in Japan. Alexander also drew on extensive work on global protectionism by Staff Writer Jay Palmer...
Because the turnover in the old Big Five is so low, America's crop of young, conservatory-trained symphonic players-by common consent the best in the world-have flooded the ranks of the second-tier orchestras. A noteworthy result is that groups like the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Denver Symphony or the Utah Symphony often can play contemporary music better than some of the top-ranked ensembles; what these musicians may lack in individual instrumental richness they more than make up for in their ability to sight-read the most fearsome modern score with ease...
Despite his background of Groton, Harvard and Wall Street, Bliss, 69, almost grew up in the opera house. His father, Cornelius Newton Bliss, was the president of a textile firm. He owned a box in the grand tier, the so-called Diamond Horseshoe, of the old Metropolitan Opera House, and he was chairman of the board from 1938 to 1946. Anthony attended his first performance when he was six, hearing Enrico Caruso in I Pagliacci, and when his father died in 1949, he was automatically offered a seat on the governing board. "I was aware of the kind of problems...