Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis straightarrow image has been selling well. He has shown great success in fund raising, which helped him enter the first tier of candiates, Goldman said...
OVER the summer, a post opened in the top tier of Harvard's management. Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien left to run the business school at UMass/Amherst, and Vice President for Administration Robert Scott moved up to fill his place...
...Instead, the work is almost all commercial -- boutiques, department stores, cafes, bars. Take, for instance, Lucchino's, a bar in Tokyo's chic Nogizaka district. It is a medium-size space for Japan; the lighting is theatrically pink and orange, the fixtures neo-1920s. A significant detail: the middle tier of the long, three-tier art deco glass bar is cracked deliberately. One might as well be in Milan. Lucchino's is the work of Shiro Kuramata, 52, a furniture and interior designer with a considerable reputation in Europe as well as Japan. His boutiques around the world for Issey...
Frank Welsh, a writer, decided that the only way to settle the debate was to build a trireme. So he called upon Morrison, an expert on ancient Greek ships and a longtime supporter of the three-tier theory. Morrison brought in John Coates, retired chief naval architect to the British Ministry of Defense...
...skilled racing oarsmen. Even so, handling the as yet unnamed trireme, which will be commissioned later this month, proved to be daunting. The seats do not move, as in modern shells, and the space between them is so small that oarsmen cannot move their bodies. The two bottom tiers of oarsmen must row blind. Guidance comes from the top level of rowers, who can see when the oars -- which are only 12 inches apart -- are overlapping. Those on the lowest tier suffer the most: beams lie behind their heads, and the weight of the oar can force the handle...