Word: tiered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...torture as cyberbookers chipped away at its core business: playing middleman between customers and the company's many franchisees. So last month CEO Henry Silverman, a veteran wheeler-dealer, moved to protect his turf by agreeing to buy Orbitz for $1.25 billion. The acquisition catapults Silverman to the top tier of online travel. His biggest rival there is another celebrity CEO, Barry Diller--the onetime Hollywood mogul who created the Fox network--whose IAC/InterActiveCorp owns Expedia, Hotels.com and Hotwire. That these inventive personalities are now jockeying over the online travel business is no coincidence. A true coming...
...when Miles suffers a torn knee ligament on a meaningless play in the fourth quarter of a blowout victory, hope immediately fades as a cadre of second-tier stars—led by Mike Winchell (Lucas Black), Brian Chavez ’93 (Jay Hernandez) and Don Billingsley (Garrett Hedlund)—grapples with the town’s smothering expectations en route to the championship game...
...chock full of recruitment meetings spent the last week jockeying for cog-dom in the consulting wheel. Note to certain seniors: years of consulting with your roommates on whether chartreuse clashes with magenta (and that’s just the guys) doesn’t make you a top-tier candidate. McKinsey, bring...
...Monthly cost of mid-tier plans, which users pay for the rest of their lives...
...then costing our team the division championship after dropping two easy touchdown passes in the first quarter of our match with archrival Stirling. But I sprung back over the summer, when I finally found my ultimate personal and professional success. During the senior league season— the second-tier adult league—I set a new record for British single season receiving yards and making it to the Division 2 playoffs. But it wasn’t the stats or the results that made my nine months in Scotland the proverbial “time of my life...