-tiered, Industrious, industrial, top-tier sponsorship. With the yen hovering around 157 against the dollar, the Japanese currency's rapid depreciation has created problems for the country beyond costly imports, including by depressing wages in dollar terms and driving away foreign talent.

With the yen hovering around 157 against the dollar, the Japanese currency's rapid depreciation has created problems for the country beyond costly imports, including by depressing wages in dollar terms and driving away foreign talent.

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Toyota to end top-tier Olympic sponsorship contract after Paris Games

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/05/1cdba3e0efab-toyota-to-end-top-tier-olympic-sponsorship-contract-after-paris-games.html

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And get ready for the "destination quinceañera": At Disney World, reports the Miami Herald, packages for the Latina coming-of-age party start at $1,800, but the top-tier "Belle of the Ball" wingding goes for $20,000.

WSJ例:

The deal, announced Monday, will put Taiwan-based Acer firmly in the No. 3 spot in global PC market share by unit shipments, supplanting Lenovo Group Ltd., which itself vaulted into the global top tier two years ago by purchasing the PC operations of International Business Machines Corp.


This "selling out" of future employees was an extremely tough call for the unions, a trade-off they agonized over. To their credit, many locals refused to go along, even though they were under enormous pressure to do so. For those who did agree, as soon as management had that two-tier wage provision under their belt (and despite assurances that it wouldn't happen), they began cutting into the very medical and pension benefits the union had sold its soul to preserve. It was ugly.

The multi-tiered Tat Kuang Si Waterfall, outside of Luang Prabang.

Japan not a top economic power anymore, Ota says
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,JapanHiroko Ota, state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, said in her Diet policy speech Friday that Japan was no longer a top-tier economic power ...



Industrious, which described persons, is joined, in the nineteenth century, by industrial, which describes the institutions.


tier
noun [C]
one of several layers or levels:
We sat in one of the upper tiers of the football stands.
My wedding cake had four tiers, each supported by small pillars.
I don't understand why you think we need yet another tier of management.

tier
verb [T]
The seats in the theatre were steeply tiered.

-tiered
suffix ━━ a. 段［層］になった.
a two-tiered structure
a three-tiered cake