Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered to someone else. And in a kind of ripple effect from the leading schools, both the admissions criteria and the intensity of the marketing hype have gone up at second- and third-tier schools, so that they are indeed no longer safe second choices...
...every lifetime post on the Harvard faculty, at least within Arts and Sciences, tends to be the occasion for a national, even international, search. Without a tenure track system, as exists at most universities, the vast majority of junior people have little choice but to emigrate. At the second-tier state university where I teach, the question generally asked about an assistant professor is: "Has he/she published enough to be a reasonable candidate for tenure?" At Harvard, and the handful of similar schools around the country, the question is: "Is this person the very finest we can get from...
Strategists at several "second-tier" campaigns claim that most media polls are limited and misleading. The surveys are targeted toward "likely" voters or caucus-goers--an unscientific designation based on party affiliation and previous voting history. According to Diane Weiland, press secretary to Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign, "A lot of people are new and will not have voted before and therefore won't show up on traditional polls." Jackson considers registering new voters an important objective in his campaign...
Hart's return hurts all the charter members of the old Democratic six-pack in differing ways. The second-tier candidates (Gephardt, Gore and Babbitt) can ill afford to be overshadowed in the crucial weeks before Iowa and New Hampshire. Gore is particularly vulnerable since, having all but abandoned Iowa, he needs a respectable showing in New Hampshire to position himself for the Super Tuesday Southern primaries. Compared with Hart, the bow-tied Simon looks like the model of a conventional politician. "Hart will take away the fascination with Simon as the new and different candidate," predicts Democratic Media Consultant...
...Brokaw made them look like schoolboys. There was an unnerving upshot of turning everyone into a TV personality: Gorbachev, the leader of America's most dangerous global adversary, ended the week with a 2-to-1 approval ratio in most polls, a ; standing that lumps him alongside the top tier of presidential candidates and by some measures ahead of Reagan...