Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nobody 'til somebody picks on you in Washington, and so this week Gary Bauer was catapulted into the first tier of Beltway players. He had the good fortune to be attacked by presidential candidate Bob Dole, who after last Tuesday's resignation is officially just a man from Kansas--but also a man who needs to find a shortcut from the right wing back to the center of his party. As presidential candidate Bill Clinton proved in 1992, the quickest route from your party's wing to its center is by attacking someone on your side. Clinton took...
...disease-causing pathogens, the most cost-effective solution is for the whole community to look after its drinking-water supply. That may require better treatment plants or land purchases to protect watersheds. Without those efforts, the U.S. could end up with a two-tier water system. Those who can afford in-home treatment will have peace of mind, while the rest of the population drinks dirtier and dirtier water...
...Black and White then hoped to salvage some of its season at Sprints, but could only muster a fifth-place finish at the Petite Level Final, the second-tier race. Radcliffe had originally hoped to make the Grand Level Finals, but it wasn...
...believe that "rank opportunism" is why Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates are where they are--in the top tier of intellegensia, black or white...
...early works, the fiercest comes out of a job he briefly held in a California madhouse. Through the door of The State Hospital, 1966, you peer into a charnel house of the soul, in which an emaciated and filthy body lies on the lower bunk of a two-tier unit while his doppelganger lies on the one above, encircled by a neon thought balloon. He is the real patient's dream; there is no escape from the confinement and lunacy; one fortifies the other...