Word: tiered
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Bush has united his party by employing a strategy that Grover Norquist, a White House ally and the president of Americans for Tax Reform, describes as "delivering on first-tier issues." For the fiercely antitax crowd, Bush supplied his $1.1 trillion tax cut in 2001. For those in the party who obsess over judicial nominations, this Bush has not disappointed as his father did. Bush picks nominees considered ideologically sound and understands the political value of fighting for those, like Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen, labeled ultraconservative by Democrats. By sticking with his core supporters on the issues they care...
...brings Democrats their first real chance to talk about domestic issues, foreign policy will never be far from center stage. Dean faces a particular challenge to prove that there is more to his candidacy than the anti-war message that vaulted him from near-unknown into the top tier of candidates. He insists his opposition to the Iraq war will continue to pay political dividends because it speaks to a strength that goes beyond that issue. "I can stand up to President Bush, and that's a rare commodity," he says. "People will remember I was willing to continue...
CONFIDENCE. Director James Foley, who explored the world of third-rate real estate scammers in Glengarry Glen Ross, explores a more ostentatious tier of criminality in this picture. To up the fim’stension level, he’s stocked his cast with actors blessed with a talent for quiet rage—notably, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia and Ed Burns. Burns is the con man who runs afoul of Hoffman’s unsettlingly short crime boss. Rachel Weisz also stars as “The Bait,” according...
Discrimination must be prevented in all levels of a group’s organization, from rank-in-file to top-tier leadership. While HRCF does not discriminate when recruiting new members—its leaders recently inserted a new clause into the constitution that emphasizes this point—stressing that membership is open is little more than a token gesture. Full participation in a club must include the opportunity to take on roles of responsibility and control. It is absurd to imagine approval for a club that allows open membership but restricts leadership to members of a certain race...
Murray applied for several scholarships, and her story attracted the attention of the New York Times Scholarship Program, a fund which gives students who have overcome great obstacles in their lives the opportunity to attend top-tier universities...