The medium size ($65), two tiers of the ocean's bounty, easily feeds four: king crab legs, a variety of oysters, shrimp and cocktail sauce, briny clams the size of a quarter, rock crab claws, half a lobster.
Recent studies have focused on the relationship between loyalty program structures (i.e., number and size of hierarchical tiers) and status levels (i.e., exclusivity) perceived by members.
This paper extends Taagepera's (2007) Seat Product Model and shows that the effective number of seat-wining parties and vote winning parties can both be predicted with institutional variables alone, namely district magnitude, assembly size, and upper-tier seat share.
The sequencing of the first tier size selected DNA was performed using the Roche 454-FLX sequencing method [ 10] (subsequently referred to as 454 sequencing) to produce the genomic reference sequence.
Ms. Kalodner said that a good waterfront property could sell for nearly $1 million, while a non-waterfront, three-bedroom house of comparable size, "one or two tiers back from the water, but with water access, might go for under $500,000".
The simple but fundamental observation that visual receptive field size increases at successive tiers of the cortical hierarchy implies that a spatially restricted subset of the total forward input to a neuron is capable of driving it; evidently the same is not true, in general, of the backward connections.
At the moment, he says, mid-sized, second-tier American firms, usually not based in New York, are buying medium-size European firms.
That, plus their sheer size, helped the top-tier consultants ride out the storm.
Finally, a sloped ground surface contributed to the instability, as did the excessive size of the second tier.
There are twenty-odd cages, of blue tile and nickle bars, and of varying sizes, arranged in two tiers, drinking fountains, life preservers, and a special steward.
