Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Juneau is the league's top scorer with total of four goals and 11 assists. Princeton junior John Messuri, whose 14 points (eight goals, six assists) have kept the Tigers out of the ECAC's lower tier (where they have perpetually dwelled), is right behind the Engineer freshman...
...Crimson is no longer the leaguefront-runner. A bunch of teams--Colgate, St.Lawrence, even once weak Princeton--are crammedinto the top tier of the league standings...
...Altman & Weil reports that rates have been soaring, to as much as $350 an hour this year for a full partner (up from about $300 last year) and as much as $100 for work done by the newest associates. To control costs, some firms have | created a new second-tier position, sometimes called staff attorney. Often recruited from less prestigious schools and hired at bargain salaries, these lawyers handle the grunt tasks. Unlike regular associates, they have no hope of becoming full partners...
...country after the stock-market crash should have offered Gephardt a receptive audience for his message: he had staked his claim as the candidate most concerned about economic complacency and most alarmed about the nation's slow loss of its competitive edge. But though he remains among the top tier of Democrats, he has had trouble capitalizing on the crisis or convincing undecided voters that he has the heft to handle troubled times. Despite his lengthy legislative scorecard and his earnest doggedness both in Congress and on the campaign trail, he remains a dispassionate figure who has sparked little excitement...
...sitting around on Jan. 20, 1989, wishing I'd done something." Those who once scoffed at such ambition -- and at his willingness to compromise in order to make friends and influence policy -- are beginning to realize that these very attributes are what have propelled him to the top tier of Democratic candidates...