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Sources said the council is willing to consider equal student-Faculty representation only under a new "two-tier" system, in which there would be an all-Faculty board that could overrule CRR decisions...
...cash customers the discount. They cannot grant discounts only to those customers who ask; under Amexco's new rules, a merchant who offers discounts must offer them "clearly and conspicuously" to everybody. Some may do that -if enough people request it. But many will not, since such two-tier pricing will surely cause bookkeeping headaches. In either case, the new discount is not likely to discourage Amexco's 5 million cardholders, mostly business and professional men and women who travel and entertain a lot. To them, the card provides a record of expenses, freedom from having to carry...
Last spring was the first proxy season for Harvard's fledgling two-tier shareholder responsibility organization, and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and the Corporation Subcommittee on Shareholder Responsibility moved slowly, voting on relatively few proxy resolutions...
...film's popularity may be less a show-business phenomenon than a lesson in crowd psychology. "I'm the first on our street to see it," chirped one suburban matron. All kinds of people, it seems, have been infected by Exorcist fever. Teenage girls on triple-tier wedgies teeter down the aisle behind pin-striped businessmen carrying briefcases. A silver-haired woman clutching a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper slides uneasily into a seat next to a middle-aged naval officer. Most audiences, however, tend to be young and to contain a far higher than average proportion...
...hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which Sylvia Plath is being presented offers audiences a tier of backless stone-hard benches set so closely together that one playgoer's knees poke into another playgoer's back. Combined with Plathian dementia, it is a rather grim evening for body and soul. ·T. F. Kalen