Long tiered, printed dresses suggested the hippie-era designer Thea Porter; flowing sheer silks cinched at the torso with waistcoat-shaped seams brought Stevie Nicks to mind.
This mix of pretty and tough, floral and geometric, womanly and martial was in perfect symbiosis, as the models came out first in a field of florals — long tiered dresses lingering on the hippie trail — but the rest urban and with the slight nod to the 1920s.
Despite its prime location on the Great South Bay within the town of Islip and the fine old homes in waterfront neighborhoods along its long southern tier, decay in its downtown core had given Bay Shore a reputation, and it wasn't good.
China isn't the only country where international and domestic bandwidth are sometimes priced differently - South African ISPs, for example, have long used tiered pricing to ration the country's scarce international bandwidth - however, China is rare in instituting a pricing structure whose prima facie purpose is the promotion of domestic business over foreign competitors.
This structure, almost 270 metres (900 feet) long, has three tiers of semicircular arches, with the top tier rising more than 45 metres (150 feet) above the river.
The AV canal in wild-type animals is 5-6 tiers long at the superior AV boundary (SAV) and 3-4 tiers long at the inferior AV boundary (IAV) of Alcam-positive endocardial cells (Fig. 4A).
He himself, a 51-year-old lawyer now married to a recent Miss Paraguay, was long a second-tier official.
Gay couples have long had second-tier status when it came to their finances — many things were more complicated, like filing tax returns, and often more costly, like health insurance.
Baxter says he supports expansion as long as second-tier clubs are able to aspire to top-flight status.
Merger activity in 1997 is likely to step down in intensity, with Bell companies acquiring second-tier long distance providers like Midcom Communications, LCI International and Frontier as a way of expanding their territories.
