Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rates exploded after the PUC granted PG&E and San Diego Gas & Electric increases of $909 million and $166 million, respectively. In January, PG&E was also allowed to adjust its "tier system," by which the electrical charges go up as usage increases. As a result, at least 50% of the state's residents saw their bills double and in some cases triple...
...stay out of the hands of the larger energy companies. Said Bailey last week: "Had Mobil been permitted to acquire Conoco, there would have been other such mergers initiated by the major oil companies. A real threat existed that a large number of oil companies in the middle tier, like Conoco, would have been eliminated." Several of those firms, including Cities Service and Marathon, have already arranged their own lines of bank credit to fight off unfriendly takeover attempts...
...overture to the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players' new production begins, the lights go up on a three-tiered, pink and white stage, with the operetta's title decked across the middle in green icing-like script: "Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride." The highest tier is a small semi-circle at the rear of the stage: around the perimeter, pink columns support a placard bearing one half of a red cutout heart. It's a satisfying moment when the significance of the set suddenly becomes clear: the whole thing is like a giant wedding cake...
...Benelux countries and in much of NATO's northern tier, student activists are encouraging "citizen initiatives" and petitions in areas designated for the deployment of U.S. missiles. Explains one student leader: "There is a moral right that supersedes the rights of the state...
...amphibious stars JOHN ZAX, CAROLINE ADAMS, DAVIS WYNEE, and others, the Kirkland House denizens racked up enough points to leave second-place tier Winthrop and Eliot 70 points behind...