Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NEVER LET ANYONE near him. "Behind our masks, we clowns lead very sad lives," he once confessed, and his private life was varied if not sad. Sellers stood four times beneath the nuptial tier, never with a girl over 23. There was Anne, Britt, Miranda, and finally Lynne, who never got to say goodbye to her husband before he boarded the jet for the big cutting room...
...slots on the bottom row of a pyramid-shaped roster. Each new player pays half of his $1,000 to the person at the pinnacle, who ends up with $16,000. The new player also pays his remaining $500 to the person directly above him on the next tier, which contains 16 people. Since each person on that tier gets paid by two of the newcomers, he ends up with $1,000, thus recouping his original investment. As more people buy in, the players move up the chart. In time, theoretically, each person reaches...
Smaller businesses are having the worst difficulties. Because they are less creditworthy, they usually have to pay 2% to 3% above the prime rate. But some banks have inaugurated "two tier" pricing, knocking a point or two off the customary rate for good but smaller customers. Says Michigan National Corporation Banks Vice President Phil Essig: "We're not really in a position to carry these people, but what can you do?" More and more banks and savings and loan institutions will be asking that painful question, as credit-hungry consumers and businesses increase in numbers and need during...
...crossroads of antiquity and yesterday. From the mountains of Nuristan to the mountains of the Pamir Knot, from the Paropamisus Mountains to the mountains of Qandahar, Afghanistan is assuredly a land of contrasts. Americans recognize that Afghanistan is the strategically all-important eastern bulwark of the northern tier of Southwest Asia, but only a fistful are acquainted with our unique indigent culture. Since the severe Soviet invasion of our nation, the rebels are eager for the Afghan-American friendship treatment. Let me introduce you to my land and its soil...
...tour as a pianist and conductor of his own works) and how to cure his impotence (have a good dinner and visit a brothel). What he cannot do is persuade Stravinsky to write lyrically for the piano instead of percussively. The Russian was a master of his métier, Rubinstein concludes, but he lacked "an original melodic invention...