" You can bet he's "a member of the lower classes.
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The lower classes are generally in evidence only as servants.
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Gilmore Girls isn't a show about upper versus lower classes.
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It's the middle, lower classes and poverty stricken areas of America.
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He sought to be the President to lift the lower classes.
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"Servants' libraries" endeavored to instill moral standards in the lower classes.
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Think of it as a gap year among the lower classes.
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"We work with single mothers and women of lower classes, housewives," she said.
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The jaded lower classes who couldn&apost find work would riot during wintertime.
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It's not only the lower classes who will pay when the banks go under.
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In Brave New World, the lower classes are drugged and conditioned into thoughtless cooperation.
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As a result, the gains achieved by the region's lower classes now look precarious.
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If class consciousness prevails, the lower classes will strongly support redistribution and vote accordingly.
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The lower classes were coming into new roles; the old order was being shaken.
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The lower classes, who worked with their hands, couldn't wear the color without getting dirty.
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Lower classes incurred huge debts of gratitude that could never be repaid, functionally enslaving them.
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It's not surprising that Maduro would respond to unrest in the lower classes with violence.
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The Witcher is a story about the lower classes, the people oppressed by prophecy and power.
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Today's protesters, we are told, come largely from the lower classes and are motivated by economic rage.
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"It's very carbohydrate-heavy loads and a sugar-heavy load that the lower classes are getting," she says.
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Until recently, Molam music was marginalized and dismissed as "taxi driver music," or entertainment for the lower classes.
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The lower classes had more flexibility and could live more sexual lives, but older men were more settled.
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Krypton's society is broken up into the upper class, the guilds, and then the lower classes, the rankless.
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Yet despite its impracticality, binding became common also among the lower classes, some of whom had to work.
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The lower classes of Edwardian and Victorian England also relied on oysters as a cheap form of sustenance.
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The design explores the "perverse effect of capitalism" in which lower classes create luxurious objects for the wealthy.
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And there's a good reason for this: Hollywood has stopped knowing how to tell stories about the lower classes.
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Mr Milken's early disciples found value in lower classes of bonds precisely because a lot of investors shunned them.
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This didn't spark support for the Nazis among the unemployed and lower classes, who flocked to the Communists instead.
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As a result, criminal groups, beginning in the early 2000s, shifted their efforts toward the middle and lower classes.
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"If you look at the price of a meal in Egypt, they're basically inaccessible to the lower classes," explains Mowafi.
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Otherwise, it was pretty much all fair game for the king as far as the middle and lower classes went.
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At the core of the conservative tradition is the defense of the stratification of society into upper and lower classes.
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Supply-siders like me know these policies only damage the economy, with the middle and lower classes suffering the most.
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Thousands of unionized public employees have protested the tax proposal, arguing it would disproportionately affect the middle and lower classes.
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The V60 and V90 cards will be required to shoot 8K video, while the lower classes will all support 4K capture.
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The Dome Dwellers eat special immortality apples, farmed by lower classes dependent on the elites for water rations and other resources.
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Among the upper classes, smoking is disgraceful — hence the self-policing of the boys — while the lower classes smoke almost continually.
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And certainly in the Bush years things got worse and worse for people from the working classes, lower classes, and middle classes.
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The combination of sex, violence, and the deplorable insubordination of the lower classes was most attractive to the journalists of the day.
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Hamilton, with his contemptuous attitude toward the lower classes, was perfectly comfortable with the inegalitarian and antidemocratic implications of his economic vision.
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Seeing this history unfold on those tracks of the ultra rich and the lower classes, it's not hard to understand his interest.
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Banks are also relaxing covenants that could have allowed lower classes of lenders to throw borrowers into default and suddenly trigger repayment requirements.
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These 'war games' were designed to be both practice for battle and a cathartic experience for the lower classes to blow off steam.
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While there is no data on the demographics of Indian jails, the police disproportionately target lower classes, castes, and those from minority religions.
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It's where the wealthy would come to mix with the lower classes in taverns and brothels, often looking for prostitutes or professional killers.
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Even Bronn (Jerome Flynn), who was long the show's sole emissary from the lower classes, is now Lord of Highgarden and Bran's Mr. Monopoly.
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There's something so fascinating (and infuriating) about two men who seemingly have everything thinking they know what's best for the middle- and lower-classes.
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The middle classes, losing their social holding and social status, join the lower classes in nurturing a deep sense of social and economic pessimism.
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The Italian high-speed train, Italo, offers a "prima" car, which has seats with more legroom and elbowroom compared with cars in lower classes.
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"People from lower classes found their own ways to be creative, because they suffered hunger and needed to eat every available part," he said.
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Conspiracy theorists have accused the participating geneticists of malfeasance, claiming that they pursued a secret agenda to withhold genetic enhancements from the lower classes.
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They were people who danced in boardrooms, battles, and interestingly didn't come from the higher or even lower classes, they were often from the suburbs.
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It seems, then, that those from the lower classes really do take more notice of faces than those who inhabit the top of the heap.
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Needless to say, efforts to improve their conditions or uphold their rights often fall short because of systemic biases against these "lower" classes of people.
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It's as if the Democrats' oft-used terminology of "the rich," or "the middle and lower classes" is now part of the GOP lexicon too.
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His coziness with Hitler, after all, suggests he was not totally above hobnobbing with members of the lower classes, as long as they were powerful.
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One of the main causes of the French Revolution was that rich nobles got out of paying taxes while the lower classes paid the largest share.
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And I don't think we can fix the income distribution problem that we have in the middle and lower classes in this country with the taxes.
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The monarchy, quickly falling out of favor among the middle and lower classes, still has a stronghold on the daily lives of families like the Crawleys.
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Hollywood used to excel at telling stories of people who lived and worked in the lower classes, who were earnestly hoping to rise up the class ladder.
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"Under such conditions, it is natural that the lower classes, who were the grassroot supporters of the Islamic Revolution, will turn into a gunpowder barrel," Karroubi said.
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But the musical avoids an equally pronounced feature of Hamilton's beliefs: his deeply ingrained elitism, his disdain for the lower classes and his fear of democratic politics.
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The Golden Age coincided with Britain's Regency Period, a time known for the rich pageantry of the upper-class and abject poverty in the squalid lower-classes.
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Without intelligence in their heads, the lower classes are never more menacing than a rabble, even if they are sometimes sullen, sometimes mercurial, not yet completely predictable.
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There are simply too many people and too little money in the middle class and certainly in lower classes to sustain this type of aggressive price model.
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The series had always been blunt about what it's like to live in the United States without a lot of money, and in its best seasons, it was as good as any show had ever been at confronting the ways that oppressive systems conspire to keep people in the lower classes from climbing the economic ladder, and looking at how racism and sexism too often divided those lower classes.
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"Southern white Democrats fueled racial conflict between poor blacks and whites in order to redirect the anger of the lower classes away from the white elite," she said.
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In Maryland, Mr. Jealous prevailed in a tough primary for the right to face Mr. Hogan, whose economic agenda he says leaves behind the middle and lower classes.
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In the broad sense, High-Rise follows the logic of social criticism: the people up top oppress those down below, so the lower classes rise up and create mayhem.
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Democracy is fundamentally about protecting the middle and lower classes from redistribution by establishing the equality of basic rights that makes it possible for everyone to be a capitalist.
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It is not the lower classes but the middle and upper classes who have remained steadily behind President Rodrigo Duterte, despite the heinous extrajudicial killings committed under his rule.
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Marie Antoinette spent millions (in today's money) on clothes every year, before the unhappy lower classes turned her into a symbol of inequality and killed her and her entire family.
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The result is a political landscape defined by battles between the middle and upper classes, who naturally oppose financing such endeavors, and the working and lower classes who would benefit.
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A new statistic casts this idea strikingly: According to Pew, the middle class, once the majority in America, is now a minority, with the upper and lower classes surpassing it.
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Among those whose bank accounts brim with the soon-to-be Tubmans, a "velvet rope economy" is blossoming by providing Gilded Age-style separation of the upper and lower classes.
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The lower classes have more reason to protest the status quo than those in higher rungs who benefit from it, while the middle classes prefer not to rock the boat.
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I completely agree that the issue between haves and have nots needs to be talked about more, because inequality between the upper and the lower classes is growing every year.
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But even after the draft ended in 1973, the military focused its recruiting efforts on the middle and lower classes, as well as those with service history in their families.
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She stuck to her core message throughout the night: advocating for dramatic, structural change to eradicate corporate corruption and redistribute wealth from the top to America's middle and lower classes.
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For the top, the separation from the middle and lower classes means less understanding and sympathy for the majority of the electorate, combined with the comfort of living in a cocoon.
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Divided for years by a clear caste system that separated the workers for the aristocracy, the lower classes revolted, leaving me with the choice of who to support in the conflict.
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I argue that conservatism is a reactionary movement, and by that I mean that it's primarily a reaction against actual social movements involving the lower classes, or people on the bottom.
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And the play now feels prophetic in its portrait of resentful Americans, bewildered by a "zombie" economy built on "invisible money," trembling on the brink between the middle and lower classes.
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By this point, he had moved away from the neorealist tales set among the lower classes and moved deeper into scurrilous provocations that increasingly nudged the puritanism of the Italian public.
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Among concerns about Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and others is the historic scale of wealth at the apex of some industries, alongside decades-long wage stagnation for the middle and lower classes.
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"Higher testosterone people do seem to be more right-wing—though this may be mediated by social class, with high T [testosterone] lower classes being more inclined to revolutionary politics," Durant said.
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Beauty started to assume more cultural clout, and plastic surgeons inherited these ideals, seeing their trade as "fixing" the errors of too much racial mixture in Brazil, particularly among the lower classes.
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People began to think about their bodies as something to be cared for, and that treatment as something to distinguish themselves from the lower classes, who didn't wash in the same way.
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The protests were motivated by a variety of grievances including arbitrary government arrests, widespread poverty, extreme economic inequality, the rising prices of goods, and rampant unemployment among the middle and lower classes.
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To be sure, the universities of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that taught the liberal arts were decidedly elitist, excluding large swaths of the population — namely all women and the lower classes.
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The differences in appearance detailed by clothing, skin tone, and grooming reveal the hardships exacted on the lower classes in a system that benefits the wealthy, who are well-fed and pampered.
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Technically Rome was a republic, and technically the lower classes could cast votes, but the system was rigged so that a few noblemen always held most of the political influence during an election.
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Her position in the aristocracy situated her arguments within a very specific and socially defined group because the upper echelons of society had different rules than the middle and especially the lower-classes.
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Sometimes banks rewrite clauses that might have allowed lower classes of lenders to throw borrowers into default and suddenly trigger repayment requirements and cause bankruptcies, according to lawyers and analysts tracking the talks.
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The French public school system, by helping uplift the lower classes and, therefore, many children of North African parents, has also been a tool of integration (although lately it has seemed less effective).
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The last century has witnessed a far-reaching redistribution of ability between the classes in society, and the consequence is that the lower classes no longer have the power to make revolt effective.
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During a panel at the summit, one woman whispers that sales at her cosmetics firm are growing faster due to "more liquid money in the lower classes", thanks to AMLO's spending on the poor.
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On Thursday, the World Health Organization released its newest study, finding that air pollution in China continues to be well in excess of safe levels — and the impact is felt disproportionately by lower classes.
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Compressing decades of inequality and conflict, wars simultaneously push the lower classes to stand up and bow down, giving elites more reason to fear for their own power—and more instruments to advance it.
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The middle and upper echelons sought the chic, perhaps foppish approach to combat taught by the Masters of Defence, while the lower classes fought, pell-mell and in mass, in battagliole, with sticks and fists.
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He spoke against South African apartheid, sought better conditions in U.S. jails, pushed for more economic opportunities for minorities, promoted AIDS education and railed against what he saw as government indifference toward the lower classes.
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Elie Halévy, an influential early 20th-century French historian, believed that Methodism helped 18th-century England avoid a revolution of the sort that later befell France by educating the lower classes and bringing about social reform.
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Early on, the movie attempts to address racism and the social caste system, with elves taking on the roles of the elite, and the orcs filling in for the racially profiled minorities and the lower classes.
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Or they can run for public office, pretend to give a shit about the dwindling opportunities faced by the Joe and Jill Lunchbuckets of the lower classes, and get elected the leader of the free world.
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"It's true that the lower classes have more love for Lula because he invested in programs they benefit from," said Dayse Gomes, 24, a student in Rio de Janeiro who aspires to be a social worker.
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I know the point you want to make is that conservatism, at its core, is self-consciously reacting against progressive challenges from the lower classes, but is that really the only thing conservatism is reacting against?
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For all its current ubiquity, social media might someday occupy a status akin to cigarettes, which are peddled as a pleasure and a relief to the lower classes but which élite Americans largely attempt to avoid.
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Bloomberg was responding to a young woman who asked whether he agrees that lack of communication or socialization between the upper and lower classes led to breakdowns in society and the election of Trump or Brexit.
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The teachers taught me everything I would have learned otherwise, just under extra pressure that led to us judging those who scored too low to continue in the programs or went to 'lower' classes for other reasons.
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The White House struggled on Thursday to defend its new tax plan against criticism that it would help the rich at the expense of lower classes, as Republicans in Congress prepared to move ahead with actual legislation.
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At the end of "Modern Times," Chaplin's 1936 comedic masterpiece about the alienation and unemployment of the lower classes in an increasingly technological society, an orphan girl breaks down in tears on the side of the highway.
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Along with the appearance of electric lights and underground public transportation in the growing city, was after-hours entertainment amid its illuminated streets for both the thriving newly rich and the lower classes, often living in overcrowded tenements.
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But the only "lower classes" in the building are the artificially created ones: it's an expensive, prestigious new tower, and even the lower floors are filled with middle-class workers with shiny new cars and polished new suits.
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As San Francisco's wealth swells toward enclaves where Oakland's middle and lower classes call home, we have become a city of haves and have-nots; the haves get richer, and the have-nots have fewer and fewer options.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House struggled on Thursday to defend its new tax plan against criticism that it would help the rich at the expense of lower classes, as Republicans in Congress prepared to move ahead with actual legislation.
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It would be easy to write a trash piece about Blackpool grime, but, at its best, it can also be seen as telling portrait of the psyche and situations of the lower classes in so many disregarded Northern towns.
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It would presumably be paid for through higher taxes, some on the rich but some surely borne by the middle and lower classes, though they would no longer have to pay insurance premiums or most out-of-pocket costs.
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If the hopes of some earlier dissidents had been realized and the brilliant children from the lower classes remained there, to teach, to inspire, and to organize the masses, then I should have had a different story to tell.
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As the Queen tells it, in the first half of the 493th century hot pot was considered cuisine for the lower classes, members of which often used offal after the quality cuts were shipped off for the middle and upper classes.
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In the 1950s, Nancy Mitford, in Noblesse Oblige, characterized the differences between the upper and lower classes in Britain as "U and non-U," derived from a paper by linguist Alan Ross who studied the English uses of the British aristocracy.
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One of the themes of radical socialists across the ages is that the rule of law is an elitist tactic of oppression directed against the lower classes, and that it must be challenged in the interest of a higher good.
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That, along with the recent tax cut on the rich that will be funded by the middle and lower classes, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's lack of interest in public education, all serve as proof that the dream is dying.
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Even religious people subscribed to the view that smallpox was a force for good because it tended to cull the children of the poor: if vaccination were allowed to take hold, society would quickly be overrun by the lower classes.
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His blue period (1901-1904)—characterised by solemn paintings of gaunt figures and beggars—earned him a reputation for being sensitive to the lower classes and led Chen Shiwen, a Chinese art scholar, to proclaim him the "Lenin of Painting".
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The resulting fiscal paralysis, combined with insufficient progress on progrowth structural reforms — including revamping corporate taxes, building better infrastructure and training workers — hit those countries' middle and lower classes particularly hard and aggravated the impact of joblessness, especially among the young.
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Mr. Trump's election and the nominations of his cabinet of billionaires may draw ire from his critics, but the people who elected him — who draw largely from the middle and lower classes — appear nonplussed by his, and other people's, showy displays of wealth.
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The legacy of Italian neorealism is particularly notable, both in his subject matter — the focus on the plight of the lower classes — as well as his preference for shooting on location rather than in the studio, and infusing his images with lyrical symbolism.
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Given the fact that Larry was adopted by Cameron, said to be a pet to his children, and is called "Larry Cameron," it could only be expected that Larry would join Cameron in his future endeavors and adventures (mocking the lower classes).
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If he succeeds in lifting the stagnant incomes of the middle and lower classes by stimulating economic growth while protecting the social safety net upon which many Americans rely, we will all have cause to rally behind him and praise his name.
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"Parasite" is ultimately a movie about the relativity of class, and how gaps between upper, middle, and lower classes often lead to those at the bottom of the pile scrambling to step on one another in order to ascend upwards in society.
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All in, and roughly, this would be a $2 trillion loss (over 10 years) for the lower classes, 24 million of whom would lose health care coverage and all of whom would pay higher prices for basic goods under the "border adjustment" tax.
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For Brooks, the reinvestment of upper-class and upper-middle-class families in their children is positive except that it comes at the cost of socially excluding lower classes from access to similar opportunities because they cannot easily integrate into a wealthier communities.
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And sure enough, politicians promised it was possible to surf the waves of globalization at the exact moment when all the middle and lower classes could do was tread water, and parties of the right formed or reconstituted around cultural fault lines.
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Mr. Trump's election and the nominations of his cabinet of billionaires may draw ire from his critics, but the people who elected him — who draw largely from the middle and lower classes — appear nonplused by his, and other people's, showy displays of wealth.
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There are luxury items like bone toothbrushes, owned by the elite when lower classes used soot or marshmallow root, and everyday items like chutney jars, showing how increased middle-class disposable income and mass production encouraged purchasing food that previously was homemade.
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Both poor and wealthy Egyptians wore kohl, but many belonging to lower classes had to substitute lead and other minerals for fire soot, meaning that the quality of one's kohl (detectable by its shine and wear) could be used as a measure of class.
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"This is very new considering that you have a mix of people from various social classes, including lower classes, who are often less open minded [about some of the social issues being discussed] and more under the domination of confessional power and political parties," he told Hyperallergic.
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But there are also excellent reasons to think that online life breeds narcissism, alienation and depression, that it's an opiate for the lower classes and an insanity-inducing influence on the politically-engaged, and that it takes more than it gives from creativity and deep thought.
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According to Costa and Lima, the BRT is just the latest example of a long line of development projects aimed at the rich in the South Zone and Barra da Tijuca that have failed to help the working and lower classes, and in some cases have made conditions worse.
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As early as 1842, the German revolutionary poet Heinrich Heine, then exiled in Paris, observed that the politics of the middle classes were "motivated by fear," as they were all too willing to give up their ideals of liberty to protect their socioeconomic position from the lower classes.
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Class representations in media, Kendall says, are filtered through stereotypes that routinely ask us to identify with the top of the pack — the leaders, lawyers, and head detectives — while freeing us to sneer at the lower classes, because at least then we can feel better about ourselves and our living situation.
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" In fact, Allen said, "Garlic has long been used to distinguish between social classes (supposedly, only the poor and/or foreigners ate it), so maybe its smell was a way to warn of the presence of the lower classes, so the 'right kind' of people could protect themselves from being contaminated?
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As such, Mitchell is a classic mid-century white antihero, the kind that can be found, in works ranging from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" to "Portnoy's Complaint," exuding professional mediocrity, evading responsibility, humiliating himself sexually, and cowering in the face of his supposed inferiors: women, children, household help, members of all kinds of the putative lower classes.
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The personal finance site determined the most financially successful states by analyzing seven factors: the average income of the top 1%; the average income of the bottom 99%; poverty rates; the percentage of the population in the upper, middle, and lower classes; the number of millionaire households; the percentage of millionaire households; and the number of billionaires.
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My guide to Murray Hill was a Korean-American dentist and Flushing local, Ester Linton, who suggested we have the knife-cut noodle soup called kalguksu at Dae Sung Kal Guk Su. That the noodles are cut (into delicate, silky strands) is an important detail, for we also ordered sujebi, a hand-torn noodle soup traditionally associated with lower classes.
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I don&apost agree that if you cut something here, you have to raise it over here because I think ultimately the middle class is going to pay...because even if we have these great personal and corporate tax cuts, it&aposs not going to be tax reform—you&aposre still going to see something like a gas tax where the middle and lower classes are going to be hit.
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