"Something like wildlife trafficking is just not a first tier issue, it's not an issue we're going to build bilateral [relations with]," Moss said.
But that would have presumed that Schieffer differed from Candy Crowley, the previous moderator, who revealed, after the fact, that she saw global warming as a second-tier issue germane only to "all you climate change people".
For the most part, though, the accumulating crisis of climate change has been treated as a third-tier issue.
We can no longer look at climate change as a second-tier issue, relegated to something confined to the environmental community.
"It's a little bit false given they're all playing in top leagues and I'm in the second tier in England, albeit as strong a second tier as there is," he says.
As important as the repeal of DADT and passage of the 9/11 healthcare bill are, these are still second tier issues that will directly impact only a relatively small number of Americans.
I've got to understand the steel plant, I've got to understand every piece at a second tier, a third tier and a fourth tier below that.
And, as a result, they may be ranked as a "third tier" institution.
An industrial case study shows the current implementation in an ETO company acting as a first tier construction supplier.
Hence, there is the potential to apply the sequencing test as a first tier screening test.
A second tier of guardians -- Wall Street analysts, rating agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission -- failed to issue warnings of corporate deceit.
