Word: tiered
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...come to care about Clifford Irving. You remember Clifford - the second-tier novelist who claimed he was writing the authorized biography of the twentieth century's most famous recluse, Howard Hughes. Somehow he got a couple of big-time publishing entities, McGraw-Hill and Life magazine, to believe him. The evidence he produces to prove he has Hughes's cooperation is slender (almost transparently fraudulent), but as with all great scam artists, his success depends entirely on the willingness of his victims to suspend disbelief, Or, putting it another way, to allow their greed to override their common sense. What...
...generic-brand medicine cost a co-payment of $10; “preferred brand name” medicines, $20; and “non-preferred brand name” medicines, $35. Even if the cost of a particular medication fluctuates, it remains within the same co-payment tier...
...will inevitably devolve into inertia. If the Task Force’s rhetoric of flexibility and openness is to become reality, it must be explicitly enshrined in the legislation, not left to discretion of a bureaucracy. Leery of the creation of a constraining system, we previously proposed a two-tiered system. One tier would include general education classes with rigid criteria listed separately at the front of the Courses of Instruction. A second tier would consist of a broad array of departmental courses so that students would have more choices of classes to take to fill their requirements. General education...
...Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have so far overshadowed Edwards in this race, but he is a top-tier candidate and a real threat to win the nomination. He leads most polls in the key first-caucus state of Iowa, which he came close to winning in 2004. To put it bluntly, Edwards is the leading white male Democratic contender for a job that has only ever gone to white males. If, in the future, he either suspends his campaign or drops out of the race entirely, his supporters will have to look around and decide which of the remaining...
...wife's cancer at some point forces Edwards to withdraw, who would benefit? Though decidedly second-tier candidates, Senators Joe Biden and Chris Dodd would suddenly become the leading white male contenders for the nomination. But neither is a natural replacement for Edwards. Biden is running almost entirely on the strength of his foreign policy experience. Dodd is running as a Washington veteran who can get things done. Neither is plausible as a populist...