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As the recession deepened, benefits have been made more and more generous, to the point where in hardest-hit states, people laid off through no fault of their own are eligible for 53 weeks of four-tiered "Emergency Unemployment Compensation" and then 20 weeks of "Extended Benefits."

99ers: How Many People Have Run Out Of Unemployment Benefits? The Huffington Post News Team 2010

(While the union did stall teacher evaluation reforms at the state level, they signed off on other reforms, like a four-tiered eval system, alternative paths to teaching certificates, and reforming failing schools.)

Education Reform Group Pulls Council into Schools Brawl « PubliCola 2010

She had in her optimism made her own wedding cake, four-tiered, a cascade of real, edible flowers—she hadn't yet perfected her artificial trademarks.

Act of Creation J.A. Pak 2011

As the recession deepened, benefits have been made more and more generous, to the point where in hardest-hit states, people laid off through no fault of their own are eligible for 53 weeks of four-tiered "Emergency Unemployment Compensation" and then 20 weeks of "Extended Benefits."

99ers: How Many People Have Run Out Of Unemployment Benefits? The Huffington Post News Team 2010

The Ministry of Strategy and Finance set a four-tiered system for its "macro-prudential stability levy."

Korea Sets Levy on Bank Debt 2011

"All in all ... exceptionally fine procedures, dedicated individuals and basically sound decisions" proposed a four-tiered unified court system, lowered the voting age, added a lieutenant governor, extended the legislative session beyond 70 days.

Lessons of the '68 con-con Beltsville Margaret B. Mentzer 2010

Harper is going to the wall in hopes that a sufficient number of Canadians believe in tiered citizenship and a four-tiered passport system and will applaud his stand against so-called 'activist' judges.

Child detainee going home after four years in Gitmo Alison 2009

Muslim pilgrims in the next Hajj will see a new four-tiered Jamarat Bridge, a sort of multi-limbed amoeba of reconfigurable inflow and outflow ramps, emergency exits, and subway tunnels directing the flood of supplicants safely through the rocky landscape of Mina, and curiously ornamented with anemone-like efflorescences above the pillars on the upper level.

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Muslim pilgrims in the next Hajj will see a new four-tiered Jamarat Bridge, a sort of multi-limbed amoeba of reconfigurable inflow and outflow ramps, emergency exits, and subway tunnels directing the flood of supplicants safely through the rocky landscape of Mina, and curiously ornamented with anemone-like efflorescences above the pillars on the upper level.

Reconfiguring the Jamarat Bridge 2007

MSNBCs Web site description doesnt do it justice: This spectacular four-tiered pumpkin chocolate chip cake has ivory fondant and buttercream icing.

Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009