Word: tiered
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...made her film-acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film career before finding her m??tier as All My Children's overbearing socialite Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, who once barred a chauffeur from her library because he was wearing jeans. "You say Phoebe," Warrick said, "and 50 million people know what you mean...
High-achieving males are more likely to enter science and engineering than females with the same top-tier test scores, the researchers found...
...differences between the two Assaults--the new one's pretty good, the old one near great--are of tone, style and perspective. Richet's m??tier is juiced, as edgy as Roenick's psyche; it favors obsessive-compulsive tracking shots and some Dolby rumblings that make the theater shudder like a wooden roller coaster. He gooses the actors to high agitation, except Fishburne, who remains Clyde Cool throughout. Indeed, it seems as if Fishburne is the only member of the company to have learned from the original...
Over in Queens, it looks like the Mets may actually emerge as the best team in New York by as early as 2006. The Mets are finally spending money on first-tier talent instead of washed-up injury risks, and greatly improved their team by signing Pedro Martinez and the five-tooled Carlos Beltran. If top prospects like David Wright and Jose Reyes develop quickly, the Mets will be dangerous...
...problem? Klaus Ochsner, president of Germany's pet-trade industry body, the ZZF, suggested that most of the goods are made not by Germans but by low-wage, Far East producers. "The Chancellor's wife ... is insulting the pet industry and endangering German jobs," he told industry title Tier Bild. Rossmann claimed that while the products come from all over, "an exact specification is not possible." If Schröder can't find a better line than that, he may end up in the doghouse. Holiday Hookups A rash of late-year megamergers struck the U.S., including health-care firm...