Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...message that companies across America were implicitly handing down last week on Take Our Daughters to Work Day as they invited thousands of young girls to crawl down manholes, up telephone poles, into trading pits and office cubicles. But the survey also delivered more pessimistic news: this uppermost tier of American professional women, those who have secretaries to help organize birthday parties, big salaries to afford customized child care and private offices from which to call the pediatrician, discovered that the workplace often turned hostile when they became mothers...
...task force say they will recommend to the President that he allow firms with 1,000 employees or more to "opt out" of the health-insurance pools, known as "alliances," that form the backbone of the Clinton health-care overhaul. Some experts say this move could create a two-tier system: one with generally better-insured members (working for large companies) and the other with generally less well- insured members (working mainly for smaller firms). To mollify labor unions, task-force officials will probably also propose some sort of regulation that discourages such opting...
...addition to helping single-parent families, public policy can help reduce the number of single-parent families. A two-tier system of divorce law would make marriages with minor children harder to dissolve. The welfare system could be changed to eliminate its marriage disincentives...
...plan, backed by a lopsided 27-1 straw vote at the most recent owners' meeting, would split each of the two 14-club leagues into three rather than the current two divisions. A second tier of play-offs would be created by also vaulting the second-place club with the best record (the wild-card team, terminology borrowed from pro football) into postseason play. "Fans are looking for an opportunity for their teams to be winners more often than they are now," contends John Harrington, president of the Red Sox. He piously insists that the owners "are not doing this...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...