Word: tiered
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...seating and improved facilities that made fans feel more like spectators than animals. And as the game began rebuilding its domestic appeal, a handful of chairmen with a sharper eye for profits made a bold move. For years, the top teams had threatened to split from England's four-tier, 120-year-old Football League, claiming that with a domestic game in the doldrums and top clubs impotent against Continental opposition, they needed a greater say over their own affairs - and the enhanced broadcast revenue they thought they could win. In 1992, England's top clubs walked...
...clubs access money-spinning European club competition the following season. In the U.S. there are mechanisms such as salary caps in place to ensure a competitive balance, but there's no sign of anything like that in the Premiership. "What we have is almost like a two-tier league structure," says Birkbeck's Chadwick: "Those that can win the Premier League, and those that won't." That may not matter as much as you might think. Though only four different teams have won the Premier League since 1992, most fans seem unperturbed by a lack of competitiveness. Midway through...
...polls are to be trusted, the nation's top five concerns going into the 2008 Presidential election are the war in Iraq (by far the biggest issue), health care, the economy, immigration and the environment. Education, according the most recent Gallup data, is a second-tier issue, tied for sixth place with national security, terrorism and Social Security. But some powerful forces are about to unleash a $60 million effort to move it up on the nation's agenda and to compel the candidates to talk about fixing U.S. schools...
...designer Ethan A. Davis ’10 was also impressive. Tables and chairs lined the sides of the room, creating the feeling of actually being at the cabaret. The action took place on a variety of levels, from the floor just in front of the audience to a tier at the back of the stage, and this variety added to the play’s effect...
...very common for people who really care about issues affecting children and families to feel like they are swimming against the tide,” Schneider says.Bartholet adds that limited opportunities preclude students from developing the skills needed to become effective child advocates.“In general, top-tier law schools are sending students to work for the richest and most prestigious members of society,” she says. “There is no systematic training to teach students to go out and correct injustice.”Judith S. Kaye, chief judge of New York, agrees...