Word: tiers
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...were to make a list of Harvard's offers that were turned down, if half had come, we'd be in the top tier," said McCann, who held a folding chair from 1975 to 1978. "If you look at the roster of people at Princeton, most were graduate students in [Harvard's] department...If Harvard can reverse its past and see the value in keeping its very talented but not-yet-eminent faculty, they'll have a better future...
Harte, listed as an “elite runner” in the Boston Globe after his 38th place finish in 1999, rode a transport bus with first-tier runners to the starting line...
...felt a certain, unaccountable responsibility to maneuver my copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" into a prominent position - blocking out, if at all possible, my collection's less savory offerings (dog-eared copies of Vogue, well-loved Maeve Binchy novels, the odd Tom Clancy spy thriller). A sort of respectability tier system developed, with books stacked three deep on each shelf. Over the years, the private persona of my bookshelves evolved into something quite different from the carefully groomed face they showed to the world...
...masks the discomfort still felt by a minority that had been branded an untouchable class during Japan's samurai era of the 17th century. In those days, the burakumin were social outcasts: the butchers, tanners and waste-handlers who fell to the bottom of the heap in a five-tier caste system. The archaic social structure went the way of the shoguns during Japan's Meiji transformation in the late 19th century. Yet the burakumin still exist on the fringes of this mostly homogenous society, and fight the age-old battles of discrimination. "It's still a taboo," says Hiroshi...
...prefab pop does enter a bear market, Bands on the Run could prove truly forward-looking, with its low-tier musicians cadging pocket change from strangers. In the series' second episode, the Josh Dodes Band plays a dismal gig at a Chicago Hard Rock Cafe, asking the indifferent crowd to pop by its concert later in the week and help it win a TV game show. "It's all based around money," lead singer Dodes explains. Self-consciously, he grins. "And what the hell isn't?" For a moment, the phrase reality TV seems just about right...