Johnson launched a new three-tiered pricing scheme intended to simplify the shopping experience and thereby attract more customers.

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Notable here was the set-up of a three-tiered structure for programs on agricultural commodities like wheat, corn and grain.

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C-class flares, the weakest in scientists' three-tiered classification system, have few noticeable consequences.

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Among its provisions was the creation of a three-tiered system that designates varying levels of requirements for registration and public notification.

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He sets the items on a three-tiered silver plate, with finger sandwiches on the bottom and the top two layers with sweets.

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Yet that three-tiered structure is one reason why FBR's Kevin Book thinks the next farm bill will not vary too radically from the present one.

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This occurs at the wake, during the procession to the cemetery and on the ninth day of mourning, when prayers are recited in front of a three-tiered catafalque carrying a doll representing the dead.

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He got rid of the nearly 600 sales Penney offered each year for a three-tiered strategy that lowered prices in the store by 40 percent, offered monthlong discounts on some items and periodic clearance events.

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Approximately 27 million, or about two-thirds, of all smartphone subscribers are on tiered data plans, compared to 45 percent a year ago, and about three-quarters of these have chosen the higher-tiered plans.

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She has said the germ of the idea for the novel was "the notion of transience that hotels are all about, and at the same time the notion of tiered social hierarchies" - with three characters trapped in their class roles.

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