Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Currently, the school district utilizes a three-tier starting time, allowing for fewer buses, to reduce costs. The district's annual budget for transportation is $2.4 million...
...cards. Travelers Group's stock market value of $55 billion will now dwarf such giants as Merrill Lynch ($24 billion) and the newly formed Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter Discover ($33 billion). Its securities division, recast as Salomon Smith Barney Holdings, instantly joins Merrill and Morgan in the very top tier of Wall Street houses...
Consider, for starters, the state attorneys general, who brought the suits supposedly to win back the funds drained from state treasuries by smokers hacking away their Medicare dollars. They are by and large second-tier pols on the make, grasping for the kind of publicity that might boost them to the Governor's mansion or a Senate seat, but they know as well as the nearest actuary that smokers save the treasury money by (thoughtful souls that we are) dying young...
...heavy lifting that leads to real equality." He sees some good news in the bad. Though California's new policy doesn't take effect for undergraduates until next spring, minority applications to elite universities such as Berkeley and UCLA are already dropping--while black enrollment is up at second-tier campuses like San Diego and Riverside. This suggests that the new policy won't shut minorities out of the system so much as bump them down to less prestigious schools in a "cascade effect" that will leave only the most competitive campuses overwhelmingly white and Asian. Connerly calls this...
...institutions raised their prices because price was becoming a conduit for quality," says David M. Merkowitz, director of public affairs for the American Council on Education. "That may well have been true for some institutions, particularly private institutions in the top tier...