Word: tiered
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...recruiting efforts and helped draw some of the nation’s premier talents away from the SoCal softball “hotbed.” Secondly, this dispersal of talent ultimately led to the increased national popularity of softball, which had until then been considered a second-tier sport in most parts of the country...
...first, film students learn to cut and slice their films at editing tables; by junior year, they shoot their own projects. This system is rare even at first-tier professional film schools, like Tisch at New York University, where novice undergraduates typically “apprentice” and work on the projects of seniors. At some graduate film schools, students are not allowed to shoot their own projects until their second year...
Despite working as a humanities editor at Johns Hopkins University Press and Oxford University Press before taking over HUP, Sisler pushed the press to expand in the sciences. Regardless of field, Sisler says he is uncompromising in his dedication to publishing top-tier scholarship. “The number one thing is quality,” he says. “If you make $5 million a year and publish junk, that’s not fulfilling our mission. If we publish the best stuff we can find and come close to breaking even, that should be of value...
...upstart airline whose profits had soared 39% in six months, and its jeans-wearing CEO, Michael O'Leary, above. Today it's clear that this budget carrier is no fluke. With high productivity from its workers and high enthusiasm from flyers (willing to bear the inconvenience of second-tier airports in exchange for low fares), RyanAir saw its profits rise 66% in 2002. Already in 2003, passenger counts are up 35%. Both results buck industry trends. In February, RyanAir made its first acquisition, paying $26 million for struggling Dutch discount carrier Buzz. RyanAir has placed orders for 22 Boeing 737s...
Small retailers have been pushed clear off the field at MSN Shopping. The site's searchable database includes only products of 160 top-tier merchants, such as Dell and Sharper Image. Though MSN has experimented with revenue-sharing deals, it prefers dollars for clicks because of the greater predictability of the revenue, says Jim Barr, MSN Shopping's general manager. A typical deal might generate 25[cents] per click for a guaranteed 8 million clicks a year, or $2 million from a single merchant. Similarly, AOL's shopping area will expose you to only about 250 merchants, mainly leaders...