Since the populist putsch last month that toppled a short-lived Muslim Brotherhood government, many of the shadowy hard men who kept Mr Mubarak in power for three decades not to mention those who promoted him in the state-controlled press have reoccupied comfortable tiers in Egypt's power pyramid.
I suspect that it is because we are embarrassed to reveal that we are no longer in the comfortable ruling tier.
While some investors are not comfortable with tiered marketing companies such as Herbalife, Ramey argues that the strategy works for this firm.
Tall, rail-thin and self-assured, Ms. Freedman was in charge of one of the country's most venerable galleries, comfortable lunching with top-tier collectors like the producer David Geffen and the heiress Joan Tisch, buyers who would not blanch at the thought of plunking down a few million for a painting.
This person sits (extremely) comfortably on the highest tier of trouser-wearers – what attitude is superior to "I'm going to be fucking comfortable and I'm going to look like a baller while I'm doing it"?
She's moved into her second-tier but still comfortable office where Abel (Eddie Martinez), pronounced Ah-bell, is the handy cleaning man.
The chairman had his eyes on the Premier League and few were predicting anything other than a season of comfortable, uneventful acclimatisation in the second tier.
The bunks have been arranged in three tiers on both sides of the tunnels with a good deal of ingenuity; some of them fold up if required so as to form back rests for a lower tier of bunks and so provide comfortable benches for sitting during the early part of the evening.
This left Dundalk without a manager for their final match of the 2005 season, in which they had already secured a comfortable mid-table position in Ireland's second tier of association football.
In total, these results are similar to findings from our study and indicate that while the majority of participants are comfortable with a one-time consent, many prefer tiered consent or re-consent approaches indicating a desire for control.
