Under the four-tier system, teachers will be rated exemplary, proficient, developing or below standard.
Its Arrow 2 interceptor missile (developed with Boeing) will soon be joined by the Arrow 3 to form part of a four-tier territorial and theatre defence against every kind of rocket attack.
Under the new evaluation law, teachers are required to be ranked on a four-tier system based 40% on how much students have improved on tests or other measures, and 60% on more subjective measures, such as principals' observations.
The Wildlife Trusts, the national co-ordinating body for the 46 county trusts, has called for a four-tier scheme of support "which would pay farmers to help wildlife, with a scale of awards to reflect the amount of environmental work undertaken on each farm".
After Alberto Herrera , chief executive of fledgling wireless-sensor network company Medida , pitched his firm to a panel of four top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists--in front of a standing-room-only crowd of some 350 people-- Josh Stein of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson was so impressed that he asked Herrera to set up a meeting.
He added that ST-Ericsson would introduce the chipset in the second half of this year and that four top-tier companies in the smartphone arena, one being Nokia, had endorsed the product.
The U.S. has three to four top-tier WTO law firms and about a dozen other law firms that have WTO practices.
But consolidation has resulted in only four top-tier PC companies.
No Big Four audit firms came but next-tier firms like Grant Thornton, McGladrey and Crowe Horwath sent professionals.
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They will form three of the four away sides in the second-tier competition.
The IRB rankings will determine which seeding band the countries find themselves in, with one-to-four in the rankings forming the top band, five-to-eight the second tier, and nine-to-12 the third.
Under their operating company, iTOP, they plan to open ten or more branded gaming clubs in other top-tier cities over the next four years.
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Petersburg, Portuguese champions Porto and Ukrainian title winners Shakhtar Donetsk -- three teams who have all tasted glory in the second-tier Europa League in the last four years.
There is also a difference from three to four years ago, when everyone was focused on tier-one cities.
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The Big Four dominate the audit of big, listed multinational companies because second-tier firms lack the capacity and the international networks needed for the job.
Next Thursday's trip to Russia to face Rubin Kazan in the second-tier Europa League is the start of a run of four games in 10 days for last season's European champions, including an FA Cup semifinal against Manchester City next Sunday and then Premier League trips to Fulham and Liverpool.
It was only the seventh time since 1945 that a nonleague club advanced this far in the competition, but it was the first since 1989 that a club outside the four highest echelons, known as "the league, " eliminated a top-tier side.
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