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...hand, harassing situations can evolve from cases of genuine misunderstanding. In such cases of no ill intent it should be possible to resolve a complaint with minimal fuss, and generally without official intervention. For such cases falling into this "first tier," advice on possible solutions and support may be all this is required to arrive at a satisfactory solution. The existing "safety-net" of tutors, proctors and advisors is in many ways ideally suited, structurally, to meet this need. Clearly members of this safety net must be trained and sensitized however, so they may provide adequate support and counsel...
...with this description, as he explains, "I dabble in various aspects of the Byzantine history and literature," adding, "The easiest way of combining them is through intellectual history--first, in the sense of what went into the heads of the Byzantine elite." Having spent many years analyzing the first tier and its complexities. Sevcenko says that he is now studying the thinking of the so-called "second tier" of citizens below the elite--the sort "that determines the character of an epoch...
...this life embarrassingly resembles a Fairfield Porter or F. Scott Fitzgerald universe, where every man had a yacht and every girl a debutante ball. Buckley says of his personal estate, "We desired a house by the sea and didn't see any particular reason why, if the whole Southern tier of Connecticut squats down on the sea, why we shouldn't be among those who squatted down in that part of Connecticut...
...same measures, but the Japanese were more successful. Japanese refrigerators now use only about half the electricity of the 1973 models, and air conditioners 20% less. A 19-inch television set that used 140 watts in 1973 today needs less than 95. The government also started a new three-tier pricing system for electricity that puts a surcharge on the rate for heavy residential users...
Drawing the portrait of this complex, two-tier economy was the job of Staff Writer Charles P. Alexander, who had the assistance of Reporter-Researchers Bernard Baumohl and Stephen Koepp, as well as TIME correspondents across the country, in Europe and in Japan. Alexander also drew on extensive work on global protectionism by Staff Writer Jay Palmer...