Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands, Mid-Delta in Mississippi, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley -- should get $40 million apiece. In addition, Clinton unveiled second-tier recipients: Los Angeles, Cleveland and 90 smaller areas, which will get grants, but no tax breaks. Clinton said the move was a nod to the fashionable idea that communities should decide how to spend federal money, but Kemp -- a 1996 presidential contender -- dismissed the package as "timid...
Kohl wants to see Germany so embedded in European institutions that it will never again be tempted to swing its weight alone. He is so eager to create a common currency and a common foreign policy that he is willing to do so in a two-tier union, with an inner core of those ready to move forward by the end of this decade and an outer ring of those not financially or politically ready...
...government orders to shoot their leaders on sight, Hamas, the militant Islamic group that blew up a Tel Aviv bus last week, threatened to mar President Clinton's five-country Middle East tour with more violence. Since the bombing, Israeli authorities have rounded up dozens of second- and third-tier Hamas operatives from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including, Rabin disclosed today, two alleged accomplices of the suicide bomber, Salah Abdel Rahim Hassan Assawi. Rabin also pledged to amass a 10,000-member security force for Clinton's arrival in Jerusalem Thursday. In Washington, Secretary of State Warren Christopher...
...exhibit recently returned from a tour of department store galleries in Japan; the money the MFA made from renting out this show funded the massive Reubens retrospective the museum mounted last year. "Grand Illusion" feels like a second-tier, low-budget project. It draws from the permanent collection, as many shows do during times of economic stress, but it doesn't add the new twist that a show making use of frequently-seen pieces desperately needs...
After surviving a couple of seasons in the early nineties at or near the bottom of the Ivy League, the squad finally has the seasoned talent to make a run for the Ancient Fight's upper tier...