Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jacksonville has mounted a fabulously expensive campaign to get an NFL expansion team. The city government has made the campaign its first priority, promising that a football team (with the few hundred part-time jobs it will create) will dispel Jacksonville's backwater image and make it a "first-tier city...
Opinion polls show a two-tier race with four candidates in a virtual dead heat. They are: acting Mayor Thomas Menino; Suffolk County Sheriff Robert Rufo; state Rep. James Brett, D-Boston; and city Councilor Rosaria Salerno...
...persist, the more susceptible we'll be," says Behrmann. "We're not an island. We may be a refuge. We can weather the storm. But we're not immune." For another, the region's scarcity of water poses as much of a challenge as it always has. The northern tier of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with plentiful rivers and low population density, expects no problem satisfying its pockets of growth. The semi-arid southern tier of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, however, has to give water high priority...
...their output (as Castle Rock intends), Turner's entertainment-progr amming maw would barely register the impact. Turner is getting New Line's distribution system, but as Castle Rock's spokesman says dismissively of his corporate sibling-to- be, they put out mainly "B-type product. They're second tier...
...trade sprouts inexorably in new areas. In Ho Chi Minh City, by one report, the number of prostitutes has recently increased from 10,000 to 50,000. Morocco has become a Mecca for Saudi sex tourists. The next tier of prosperous Asian countries is following in Japan's footsteps, with South Korea and Taiwan developing their own sex-tour operations. And last year, attesting to the growth of market economics, more than 240,000 people engaging in prostitution were arrested in China. Sex tourism takes on ever more ingenious guises as well. To Bombay, a center for inexpensive medical treatment...