So it's very white, very male, and very upper class.
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"Complexity is the friend of the upper class," says Reeves.
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His listeners are the modest, moderate, or even upper class.
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Her Knightsbridge apartment betrays her upper-class roots, but Julie cares.
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Each of these novels begins in an upper-class English milieu.
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Meanwhile, people in the global upper class design and purchase AirPods.
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Middle- and upper-class porteños travel often to the East Coast.
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Middle- and upper-class Americans increasingly turned to hospitals for treatment.
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The median income of upper class households was $187,872 in 2016.
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He is boyishly handsome with an upper class rearing — the consummate gentleman.
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Like Patrick, Mr St Aubyn came from a wealthy, upper-class family.
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So I had great fun, especially in the English upper-class dysfunction.
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I kind of understand David Cameron: He's a white, upper class male.
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But what about the women who don't have these upper-class credentials?
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All in all, though, it's the Upper Class seat that truly shines.
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Free economies within music gut the middle class, not the upper class.
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"Marijuana has been practically legal for the upper class," Mr. Rodriguez said.
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Dorothea Brooke is of the upper class with superior intellect and grace.
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He mocks his fake upper-class accent and fancy bespoke-looking clothes.
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It is bland the way upper-class food used to be bland.
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That group of upper class households had a median income of $187,872.
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Fifty years ago, black upper-class Americans had incomes about two-thirds those of white upper-class Americans, while the black middle class — those in the 60th percentile — earned about two-thirds as much as its white counterpart.
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He's not someone of upper class stock and that is unbearable for them.
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What it takes to be upper-class also depends on where you live.
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"Upper Class Lady in Palanquin with Samurai Escorts," circa 1867, by Felice Beato.
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"These upper-class Republicans around here, they all voted for Trump," he said.
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A personal driver offers the most cache for middle- and upper-class women.
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The first was the dignified, upper class Sujata Chatterjee in "Mother of 1084".
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It was social justice from the vantage of the middle and upper class.
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Dear everyone who isn't a middle or upper-class white boy, I'm sorry.
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Dear everyone who isn't a middle or upper-class white boy, I'm sorry.
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No, that statistic is not meant to make anyone pity the upper class.
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"There will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Mnuchin said.
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There really isn't any understanding that upper-class women are disempowered by patriarchy.
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Trump's people, working, middle or upper class, want less, often much less, state.
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She grew up in a conservative Catholic upper class home in Mexico City.
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"We still don't know why the upper class makes certain decisions," he said.
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So she agrees to train upper-class teenagers in how to race kehoks.
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In Atwood's novel, Marks goes to work in an upper-class Toronto household.
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"Was this some upper-class loony loose on the Cambridge streets?" someone wonders.
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Since 1980, all of the income gains have migrated to the upper class.
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"Before the revolution, all upper-class girls were educated in needlework," she said.
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During most of the 20th century, the upper class was a homogeneous community.
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"There will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," he said said.
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In short: The young, healthy and middle/upper class may benefit from the bill.
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At the height of its popularity, the color white signified upper class and refinement.
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TV that upper class, whites have become a dominating force within the Democratic Party.
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Cities are listed in ascending order of salary required to be considered upper-class.
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Epstein's network of global elites hasn't faced consequences, stoking suspicion of the upper class
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That is less than half the rate for Americans who identify as "upper class."
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Jessica Mitford, the Communist writer and British upper-class rebel, lived in San Francisco.
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As a young upper-class woman, she was encouraged to study drawing and painting.
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I didn't know the codes of the upper class and felt like an outsider.
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" She wore "upper-class hippie clothes—gorgeous, and arty in a very swanky way.
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Obama was quickly granted the thing Trump never had: upper-class acceptance and adulation.
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And normally more upper-class people make me go up to their apartment door.
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This tropical bistro is in Los Palos Grandes, an upper class neighborhood in Caracas.
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The CBRu is trying broaden the sport's appeal—and talent pool—beyond the upper class.
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In contrast, middle- and upper-class families instill very different values from an early age.
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In this futuristic state, Handmaids are forced to bear children for barren-upper-class couples.
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Here's how to tell if your income qualifies you as "middle class " or "upper class. "
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IN 230, A SHOW opened at London's Grafton Galleries that shocked the British upper class.
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Upper-class families like Ms. Yip-Williams's had their assets confiscated by Vietnam's Communist government.
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That helps middle- and upper-class people (though not the poor) and creates no losers.
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Even though they were wealthy and upper class, they could not help him avoid imprisonment.
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In either case, until the nineteenth century such gardens were strictly an upper-class diversion.
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Pressured to conform to expectations for an upper-class wife, she curtailed her public recitals.
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According to Town & Country, because of Camilla's upper class upbringing, socializing with royals wasn't uncommon.
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It has become increasingly common for upper-class white people to express anti-trans views.
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As of mid-January, for example, Virgin Atlantic Upper Class fliers departing from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey can head to the airline's Clubhouse, the lounge for Upper Class fliers, to imbibe cocktails courtesy of the popular Cuban-inspired Lower Manhattan bar BlackTail.
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What the researchers found was that those who identified as upper-class looked at others on the street just about as frequently as those who said they were working-class, but the upper-class individuals did not hold their gaze on others for as long.
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"We are not maybe the cool brand that serves the upper class of people," Ersek said.
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It's true that recruitment videos often seem to be targeted at upper-class, overprivileged white women.
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When it was of a face, though, lower-class people did better than upper-class ones.
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They also had silly nicknames, beloved of the upper class—Jelly, and another brother called Dumbo.
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As with the upper-class Graybridge, the mockery of working-class Denley Moor is always affectionate.
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In Britain, it's considered tradition for upper-class boys to wear shorts in their younger years.
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As an example, Russell pointed to upper class members of society with plenty of leisure time.
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Elite is Gossip Girl, but with murder and some more astute criticism of the upper class.
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Most upper-class people who end up in politics moderate their accents and mainstream their views.
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It's considered tradition in England for young boys to do so, especially in upper-class society.
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In Prague, like most upper-class and upper-middle-class couples, my parents had separate bedrooms.
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Quality education is every child's right, not a privilege that only belongs to upper-class families.
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For Germany, that could mean a long-term loss of know-how and upper-class jobs.
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And if you were an upper-class white person, especially a man, that was your territory.
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He spoke like one too, that lisping upper-class stream of consciousness coming thick and fast.
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Nick: I grew up in an upper-class family, but I had a pretty normal life.
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Upper class citizens have had a leg up in our society since the beginning of time.
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The spirit of upper-class occasion was reinforced by the almost baroque servility of the waiters.
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When it came to changes in faces, however, upper-class subjects were slower to detect them.
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In order to fly Upper Class with a companion, you&aposve got to have Gold status.
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Trump knows only one thing: the values of upper-class New York City real estate deals.
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About one-fifth of American households, 19%, are considered upper class, while 29% are lower class.
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Here's the minimum amount you'd have to earn each year to be considered upper-class, depending on the size of your family: The share of U.S. adults considered upper-class varies depending on where you live, Pew noted: In affluent metropolitan areas, it's much higher than 19%.
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He wondered whether the upper-class residents of Deerfield have more political influence than those in Chicago.
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"In contrast with Trump, they believe Republicans have 'always been for the upper class,'" the report concludes.
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Upper-class British boys usually wear shorts until they're 8 years old (yes, even in the winter!).
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"Dear Comrades," he begins, delivering his lecture to a rapt audience in his upper class English accent.
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The scion of an upper class family from Lahore, 65-year-old Khan founded PTI in 1996.
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"Americans associate it with the British upper class," said Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University.
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One of the biggest complaints about Virgin's old Upper Class seats was a lack of storage space.
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England's rugby World Cup team is less white than ever, and may be less upper-class, too.
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The upper class but gloomy Victorian fashion and psyches spread across the wintry lands of Haworth, England.
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Bush embodied, almost to the point of caricature, the older tradition of upper-class New England Republicanism.
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Any tax cuts for the upper class will be offset by less deductions that pay for it.
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Instead, every Tuesday, she collects donations from the homes of Tijuana's upper class, whom she cleans for.
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What has shifted in your performance now that you're portraying a guy who's comfortable and upper-class?
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"A lot of our chefs come from the middle class or even upper class," Ms. Kahi said.
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Donna Karan brought upper-class, New York style into stores across America with her DKNY fashion line.
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One prominent complaint regards the lack of access to high quality employment enjoyed by the upper class.
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NP: Yes, I think our market segmentation is based a lot on the middle and upper class.
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The top fifth — the upper middle class and upper class — are separating from the bottom 80 percent.
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The Capulets are a stiff, conservative upper-class family, while the Montagues represent the liberal middle class.
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A 2018 Pew Research Center report found that only 19% of American households were considered upper class.
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As a result, they have harbored fierce resentment against upper class Tories from down south -- like Johnson.
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The portraits depict the couple as elegantly-dressed and respectable, using the tropes of upper-class portraiture.
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There are some restrictions, but they leave a lot of room for a comfortable upper-class life.
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The biggest one is that delay of gratification might be primarily a middle- and upper-class value.
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It refers to the working class communities that are physically separated from the middle and upper class residents.
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According to WOTW, this accent often indicates that the character is upper-class and hails from King's Landing.
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" — oldforger "I lived an upper-class life growing up, but my dad was a farmer in his youth.
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When Smith was founded in 1871, its students were "upper-class, white, Protestant young ladies," he pointed out.
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That begins with moving their lower-class family into the most rundown house in an upper-class neighborhood.
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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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I appreciated that DALRAT doesn't center middle- and upper-class white teens in a personal tragedy-based comedy.
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If you're an upper-class liberal from the Northeast, the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
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Brooks is famous for being the bard of the Bobos, the socially liberal and fiscally conservative upper class.
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However, "middle class" and "bourgeois" allow, at least rhetorically, for the existence of an upper class, an aristocracy.
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Hasn't the selfie "democratized," to use a loaded term, what was once a practice of the upper class?
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Relations between the predominantly middle- and upper-class sannyasins and their lumpenproletariat guests soured almost at the start.
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An upper-class Manhattan party girl dead after a wild night of risk-taking turns into a stabfest?
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Yet working-class, middle-class and upper-class Americans all hold negative views of the tax-cut law.
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I recently asked some current and former caddies what they've witnessed the upper class do on the course.
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Yes, we take a dim view of inherited wealth and of the luxuries enjoyed by the upper class.
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He was even a bit hesitant when I offered him two upper class tickets which cost about £4,000.
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True, "A Little Night Music" is sumptuous, as befits its setting among the Swedish upper class in 1900.
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Pew defines the upper class as adults whose annual household income is more than double the national median.
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Thackeray was depicting an upper-class society whose wealth was founded entirely on colonizing those unfortunate tawny folks.
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The event is centred on debutantes: young women making their first official appearance in British upper-class society.
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But it also refers to her being watched, voyeuristically, for the entertainment of an upper-class, urban audience.
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Knott tells the story of one Irish wet nurse, employed by an upper-class Victorian woman in Massachusetts.
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Space, and the ability to have space to oneself, is a privilege only the upper class can afford.
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The fact that most scientists (and artists) were middle and upper class added the tension of class struggle.
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Are we now a county comprised of an upper class — an aristocracy — and a lower class in poverty.
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More than half of American households, 52%, are considered middle class, Pew reports, while 19% are upper class.
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Fully 22 percent were born on first base, with an upper-class background that gave them some help.
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Americans can calculate if they are lower, middle or upper class by using Pew Research Center's updated calculator.
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" My interviewees never talked about themselves as "rich" or "upper class," often preferring terms like "comfortable" or "fortunate.
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With the mega rich and upper class driving its economy, California leaves the rest of its population behind.
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" I'll repeat the key phrase for emphasis: "there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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Straight, cis, beautiful, upper-class couples are at the center of most romance novels, especially those from major publishers.
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Until the 20th century, high schools were typically attended only by the children of middle- and upper-class families.
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Taylor-Joy tells volumes about Lily through her eyes, burying it with upper-class posture and a quivering lip.
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In fact, upper-class purgers pay top dollar to be able to purge in a safe, controlled hunting ground.
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So, he was your typical couch potato—minus the wealth that comes with living in upper class Egyptian society.
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As with the Trump tax bill passed late last year, Italy's tax reforms would largely benefit upper-class earners.
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But although bringing in that much puts you in the upper class, it doesn't guarantee that you'll feel rich.
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Now on TV, no matter your actual job, almost everybody belongs to the same generic, vaguely upper-class class.
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Clapham has an upper-class background (Samuel Pepys enjoyed a countryside lifestyle here at the end of his life).
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Keenly felt suffering gets assigned to one type—some elegant specialist's languorous and pale upper-class faintness of being.
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More members of the middle class are joining the ranks of the upper class, causing the middle to shrink.
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Tahrir represented a brief convergence: most organizers were upper class, and millions of the poor had followed their lead.
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Meanwhile, upper-class, predominantly white counterparts had access to private pools in their communities and often at their homes.
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Instead, there's now a (mostly) gentrified, middle and upper-class crowd fetishizing the working class through fashion and music.
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Like so many institutions of the upper class, my camp was just another handshake, another network, another vetting process.
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Because it's already assumed that men (middle- and upper-class white men at least) deserve to have it all.
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A quarter of South Africans enjoy a middle- or upper-class life, while the rest struggle to get by.
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Along the way, giant billboards advertised flashy real estate ventures intended to appeal to middle- and upper-class Egyptians.
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The response from Finland's capitalists, conservative landowners and members of the middle and upper class was swift and violent.
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The salon, which had more than a two-decade run, helped the Knowles family afford an upper-class lifestyle.
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This is played as a running gag that is ostensibly intended as a critique of white upper-class liberalism.
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However, the threshold for being considered "upper class" varies from city to city, depending on the local median income.
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The quasi-aristocracy of the WASP upper class has been replaced by a "meritocracy" of a more varied elite.
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If you're middle to upper class and white, and skew conventional, it's not a bad time to be gay.
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At the same time the abortion-rights movement was linked in its early days to a distinctive form of upper-class WASP paternalism — in which legal abortion was sold as a means of helping upper-class "good girls" out of trouble while keeping the undesirable fertility of other classes and races in check.
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It is less jokey than his typical tenor, and there is far more self-congratulating, upper-class complacency than usual.
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China's rapidly growing economy and expanding upper class have created a strong market for ivory and rhino horn, he says.
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Until the early 20th century, high schools were typically attended only by the children of middle- and upper-class families.
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A small cabin on wheels, it was designed to allow its upper-class occupant access to the sea in privacy.
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Accordingly, Fortepan contains many scenes of idyllic upper-class life: children sledding, friends in knit sweaters holding each other's waists.
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We stuck to a very specific palette for the Meths [the show's upper class], because they live above the clouds.
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Apparently, racism is easier to accept when it comes from someone with the urbane, upper-class demeanor of Jacques Chirac.
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And through it all, the upper class insists that he's a secret moderate, appealing to popular anger to win votes.
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Its actions could help concentrate higher education in the upper class, and contribute to the entrenchment of a permanent underclass.
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Arguably, similar debates have never occurred for social service programs that benefit middle- or upper-class — and often white — communities.
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In the fourth century, he and his family were among the many upper-class northerners who relocated south to Nanjing.
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The Loft, which sits between the Upper and Premium cabins, is only available for Upper Class passengers to use, though.
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Though Christians represent roughly 30 percent of the population, they are highly represented among upper-class, urban, well-educated Koreans.
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The dish is not as popular with the country's small upper class, and you won't find it in expensive restaurants.
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What would happen if this Los Angeles Aqueduct Monument honored the Paiute Nation instead of one upper-class white man?
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For example, I've met middle and upper class young people who hang out with other Egyptians but speak in English.
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However, public hospitals remain severely underfunded, and most middle-class and upper-class Brazilians prefer to use private medical services.
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The milieu is also in the Schwartz-Savage comfort zone: the sunny upper-class precincts of beach-adjacent Los Angeles.
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"A Woman of No Importance," which satirizes upper-class society, premiered in April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
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"There will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said shortly after the election.
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G&T programs in our educational system tend to be economically and demographically concentrated in middle- to upper-class neighborhoods.
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Ideological purity is a luxury enjoyed by upper-class white liberals who will be least harmed by President Trump's policies.
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She probed the psychology of mostly upper-class perpetrators, saying their personal histories interested her more than the crimes themselves.
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It's just a different mindset that we have than middle-class America or upper-class America has towards the police.
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Moreover, these organizations' policies are informed by constituencies that have historically supported them: middle- and upper-class white urban voters.
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We took the upper class, who was supposed to be the establishment of the magazine, and really made them irreverent.
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The bill drastically cuts tax credits for the oldest and poorest Americans, while giving the upper class a major tax break.
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Croft comes from an upper-class British family (hence her skills at archery, which serve her well later in the film).
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Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways have both launched electronics loaner programs for passengers, flying in upper-class cabins on certain routes.
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Sixteen winners will fly on an "Upper Class" Virgin Atlantic flight from London Heathrow to Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.
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TENNIS was born as a leisurely pastime for the upper class, meant to be played at whatever pace the participants favoured.
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Mr Xi is a member of the party's upper class: his father was Mao's deputy prime minister until he was purged.
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While adoption rates have been high in middle- and upper-class areas, low-income areas haven't adopted Google Fiber as fast.
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But for all the storied glitz and glamour, flying was also prohibitively expensive, a luxury only afforded to the upper class.
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More than a decade ago, much of Venezuela's upper class fled the self-styled socialist revolution of late President Hugo Chavez.
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In his book, he argued that now there are more classes rather than a traditional working, middle, and upper class split.
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It's not a white problem, it's not a black problem, it's not a Hispanic problem, middle class, working class, upper class.
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Violet doesn't approve of the privilege and decadence around her, so she's ready to bring the upper class down a notch.
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After all, there is no child-rearing practice that more ostentatiously screams cosmopolitan upper class than having your kid learn Mandarin.
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The elfin "upper class" Eloi are seemingly content, but are in fact easy prey for the ape-like "working class" Morlocks.
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One reason the Republican tax cut wasn't popular was that most voters thought it was aimed primarily at the upper class.
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But a report saying the typical middle-class (or even upper-class) family is on the brink of disaster doesn't help.
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But in real life, it would feel like the monetary equivalent of upper-class minimalism: virtuous thrift as an ostentatious luxury.
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In many ways, a quintessentially traditional upper-class British girl, Diana's life as a woman was rather more continental and modern.
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Still, 2019 gave us plenty of movies in which members of the working class fight back against their upper-class foes.
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"And the Sloane Rangers in England"—the upper-class West London tribe known for wearing riding pants and Hermès silk scarves.
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Jenny Southan, founder of Globetrender, described it as an emerging "hotspot for celebrities, models, upper-class bohemians and the monied elite."
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Or, they were more impoverished Sunnis who saw joining ISIS as a way of gaining power over wealthier, upper-class Sunnis.
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Today, most Cairene children who are solidly middle or upper class are educated primarily in English or French, at private schools.
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Usually, women who painted at the time came from an upper class family through which they could get the necessary materials.
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Try some version of Bill Clinton (minus the grossness) for a change: working-class affect, middle-class politics, upper-class aspirations.
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He was raised in an upper-class family in Manhattan, went to the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, then Yale, then Stanford.
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Sex, too, was a masquerade, which allowed this (upper-class) woman to enjoy her desires and still hold onto her virtue.
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Ikea, the world's largest furniture retailer, is betting that millions of middle- and upper-class Indians are similar to the Lambas.
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That was the habit of middle and upper-class people in the Western world until the middle of the 19th century.
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But civic duty and self-interest do not capture the ways that middle- and upper-class Americans are engaging in politics.
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For those who grew up middle-to-upper class, the biggest money wasters include dining out, alcohol or drinking and groceries.
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As the largest of Hong Kong's private clubs, the Hong Kong Golf Club represents the upper-class elite of the city.
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The wealthy upper class in SW dress more elaborately and in brighter colors (trade federation, Queen Amidala, Lando) 7/12 pic.twitter.
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Seattle's rich should engage in upper-class "civil disobedience" and refuse to pay their city taxes, Washington state's Republican leaders said.
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Airlines are investing in the meals they serve in their upper-class cabins by hiring star chefs and experimenting with flavors.
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" Mnuchin said in a CNBC interview in November 28500 that "there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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As the Guardian reported, Mahjoubi comes from a world often invisible to white upper-class French citizens who have dominated parliament.
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The district, which encompasses middle- and upper-class suburbs as well as parts of Baltimore, has been majority-African American since 1973.
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While some of them are or want to become rich, others do not come from wealth or aspire to become upper-class.
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Paswan said the opposition could take advantage of the BJP's pro-upper class Hindu image and it needed to be countered aggressively.
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Activists have also criticized the fight for not being inclusive enough and speaking disproportionately for the rights of upper-class gay men.
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That sex work can act as a stepping stone from a normal, middle-class lifestyle to an upper-class one is alluring.
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And two-thirds of that cohort's wealth was held by just 1.5m upper-class savers with at least $2000,22000 in net assets.
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I don't think Harry was ever going to marry a nice upper-class girl from the [English] counties — it's just not him.
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Meanwhile, another teenager, Kevin, comes from an upper-class black family — but his economic status doesn't erase the fact of his race.
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And it shows just how much upper-class Republican women still look to the wife of President Donald Trump for style cues.
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Money now going to poor families would have to be redirected to upper-middle- and upper-class families not currently receiving subsidies.
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But Orange Is the New Black wanted to use one upper-class white lady as its window into the prison industrial complex.
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I don't think Harry was ever going to marry a nice upper-class girl from the [English] counties—it's just not him.
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In it, Hashmi plays an upper-class woman who aims to teach her viewers, presumably women, how to, well, boil an egg.
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The Bloombergist upper-class moderates fear the Trumpist working-class moderates, and Trump's middle-American populists loathe the globalist elite right back.
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"A lot of the competitive races are in suburban districts with upper-class independents and Republicans," said Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist.
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Black men are significantly less likely to make it into the middle and upper class than their white and Asian-American peers.
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Mr. Omar's Twitter updates have prompted many of Lahore's middle- and upper-class residents to buy air purifiers and don face masks.
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The designers "served the aspirational whim of wealthy upper-class white women and then were completely dismissed by history," the artist said.
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If the only journalism is performed by middle- and upper-class white people, it means we aren't seeing large swathes of reality.
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Mr. Scheer I grew up in the Bronx, and that whole scene in Manhattan was what the upper class was all about.
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In his studies to be a chef, Chris has developed an affinity for the upper-class, culturally sterile world of fine dining.
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And it was there that he transformed his manner of speaking into a cross between upper-class Indian English and generic American.
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The initial beneficiaries were pedigree dogs, a creation of 19th-century upper-class Britons that America's thriving middle-classes embraced with gusto.
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America's self-image is of a middle-class nation, unburdened by either a lumpen proletariat working class or an aristocratic upper class.
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In this study we had two samples, one of working adult professionals and a second sample of upper-class undergraduate business majors.
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Critics claimed that the ad appealed only to an upper-class audience based on the home and people depicted in the spot.
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Nicholas Foulkes, the author of the 2008 book "High Society: The History of America's Upper Class," chose the 1883 Vanderbilt costume ball.
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As a result, she serves as a canvas on which people project their ideas of femininity, celebrity and the British upper class.
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His grandfather, Osman Ali, changed his name to Wilfred Johnson and raised his children to be emphatically English and emphatically upper class.
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I had the misfortune of sharing a dorm hall with a group of boys from upper-class suburbs at Russell Group university.
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And the chart is broken down into what types of homes the participants were born into (lower class, middle class, or upper class).
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So safety for the newcomers, who are mostly white and mostly middle or upper class, becomes the priority in the hyper-gentrified city.
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However, from The Fountainheadto How I Met Your Mother, popular representations of architects code the profession as comfortably middle (or even upper) class.
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But the Queen's husband — 96-year-old Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh — doesn't wear one, perhaps sticking with the British upper-class tradition.
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Private social gentlemen's clubs started popping up in London in the 17th century, as spaces where upper-class men could go to network.
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Only this time it's clear that mega star producers are looking for ways to remake upper class stories in more socially conscious ways.
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Upper class Romans may have enjoyed practicing boxing as amateurs, but they would never debase themselves by participating in a sport in public.
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Nearly 90 percent of African-American students at selective colleges, some of whom were admitted through racial preferences, are middle- or upper-class.
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At first, it was mostly for the upper class, but by the 19th century, indoor plumbing led to the bidets we have today.
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Mostly it was kids from the families of academics and other upper-class families, and less often from the rest of the scene.
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Ken presented himself as a very upper class guy, and from what I have learned about him, he was anything but that [laughs].
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I belong to India's English-speaking upper class and, in the eyes of my host, I was exempt from the rules of caste.
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The upper class has gained much more from the internationalization of trade and finances than the working class has, often in obscene ways.
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Instead, it's about the rage of white men, upper class as well as working class, who perceive a threat to their privileged position.
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It was, according to that Fed survey and other surveys, happening to middle-class professionals and even to those in the upper class.
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But Kreizler's insistence that Willem Van Bergen isn't the killer enables Morgan to put aside upper-class solidarity and address his real concerns.
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His brand of direct, upper-class speaking has given him celebrity status and won him a set of followers now nicknamed the Mogglodytes.
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Woven silk cloth in dazzling or muted colors are an intrinsic part of rural life in Laos, and of upper-class life, too.
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Briony's upper class English family is worlds away from Lila and Lenù's lives, but the long shadow her childhood casts should feel familiar.
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"They would say, 'I'm more upper-middle class,' though from my perspective I would definitely put them in the upper class," Nolle says.
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The Massachusetts senator says her campaign is dedicated to creating a government that works for all people and not just the upper class.
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I think it had to do more with the role that I played — that it was comedic and that it wasn't upper class.
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I'm always a little confused when people identify that way, especially if they are middle to upper class and involved with elite institutions.
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Opinion Columnist There's an old joke about upper-class British anti-Semitism: It means someone who hates Jews more than is strictly necessary.
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Moreover, the situation gets bleaker for upper-middle and even some upper-class families; most people making six figures would be worse off.
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Brownstone, a concert presented by the Metropolis Ensemble, might look reserved for an unattainable upper class, but the scene is anything but stuffy.
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Jay is battling with editors, and Pat is struggling to fit in with the upper-class L.A. family she now believes she belongs to.
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Documentaries, being generally made for middle and upper-class audiences, can easily succumb to condescension or outright exploitative misery porn when depicting working people.
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Though the Doctor is ever-changing (the character regenerates at regular intervals) each iteration boasts another white, mostly upper class, largely condescending, British man.
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What's the same about a photo of the most recent Notting Hill Carnival parade and an 18th century portrait of an upper class family?
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a Senate panel that "there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class" in Trump's tax plan.
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But most people who played were directors and managers of those clubs: salon managers, union leaders, and apartment block managers—the Communist upper class.
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Silvia Polleri, an acquaintance of Castellano's and a veteran of high-end catering for the Milanese upper class, was recruited to start the business.
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Katharine Graham was an upper-class socialite who hobnobbed with presidents, and with Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense who commissioned the Pentagon Papers.
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He cites his daughter's elementary school in suburban Richmond, in an area once considered to be upper-class white, but now is majority-minority.
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An upper class woman's place in India is a better place, and has more access to a public space, than a lower class man.
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It must be said that, like many conversations about femaleness, discussions around being childfree have often centered around white, middle- or upper-class women.
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Born to an upper-class New England family, he became a war hero, a successful entrepreneur and a public official with wide-ranging experience.
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When Hammons attaches a dirty tarp to a wood-and-plaster framed mirror, he is covering and defacing an upper class sign of vanity.
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That's why it's important—nay, imperative—that we, the proletariat, take every opportunity to exact tiny measures of daily revenge on the upper class.
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The disparity between upper-class people's estimated performance and actual performance was more dramatic in a later study involving 230 University of Virginia students.
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They were often distinctly British, touching on Mr. Rees-Mogg's posh accent, his upper-class background and his "nanny," to name a few themes.
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A lot of middle- or upper-class white people talking about their problems without acknowledgment of their privilege or context in the wider world.
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Only an upper-class, privately educated, clever and bitter English spook could have achieved the level of eloquent spleen in this delightfully nasty book.
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In countries like China, many in the middle and upper class are just beginning to eat cheese, and demand could skyrocket in coming years.
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Lorelai Gilmore, a Harvard-bound debutante, has a kid at 16 and flees her upper-class family for an unglamorous job at an inn.
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This part of town is known for its prestigious homes and upscale boutiques that "cater to the upper class residents," according to the listing.
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For both the upper class and the new bourgeoisie, the real point of a night at the theater was to see and be seen.
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Sanders's campaign, much like his 2016 bid, has made a benchmark issue of income and advantage disparities between upper-class and working-class Americans.
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Upper class individuals are also worse at recognizing other people's emotions, and they're less likely to pay attention to the people they're interacting with.
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She had received "the best possible English upper-class upbringing" and had met his father through a shared interest in mountaineering, Mr. Howard wrote.
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Democrats are becoming the party of the upper class, which may make it harder for the party to embrace a transformative progressive economic agenda.
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Despite their upper-class stature, a number of them throw themselves across a table, grabbing scarves from one another like hogs at feeding time.
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It chronicles the lives of four sisters from an upper-class family that lost much of its fortune in the run-up to the war.
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But one of the most ghoulish—and lesser-known—ways upper-class Victorians got their creepy kicks was by hosting and attending mummy unrolling parties.
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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, upper-class employers would share boxes of leftover presents or money with their servants, who were required to work on Christmas.
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I don't believe that the trappings of an upper-class, heteronormative life — partner, house, kids — are the only things that make a life worth living.
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The qipao, also known as a cheongsam, is a traditional Chinese dress that came to popularity via socialites and the upper class in the 1920s.
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His office is full of upper-class socialists who fell in love with the working-class while attending some of the world's most expensive schools.
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He keeps journalists awake with jocular sarcasm against the "neoliberals" and upper-class "fifís" who were the main beneficiaries of decades of free-market reforms.
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She named this parenting style "concerted cultivation," and found that the skills that these children develop translate well to a middle- and upper-class environment.
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There will definitely be huge upper-class tax cuts, fire sales of federal land, draconian cuts to discretionary spending, and other upward distributions of wealth.
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Wars are fought against ornery aliens, upper-class snobs keep others as indentured slaves, and trained assassins murder people and fashion their bones into furniture.
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The company's website says its clients in the past have included King Edward VII, members of the French upper class, Henry Fonda and Gianni Agnelli.
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One of the concerns in the comments on your "The Busy Person's Lies" piece is that time tracking is a luxury of the upper class.
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Sher, working with the wonderful scenic designer Michael Yeargan and the choreographer Christopher Gattelli, makes a show, in this scene, of upper-class English repression.
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In contrast to many in the movement around her, Rosler has never seemed especially interested in the plight of middle- and upper-class white women.
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What can we do, Americans who live in middle- or upper-class comfort, or who struggle at working-class jobs that barely pay the bills?
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More than anything, the scandal shows how much elite higher education has become entangled in structures of prestige, status and anxiety among the upper class.
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Barney's work has always been about place, but has until now favored indoors settings — often the homes of upper-class East Coasters — over natural ones.
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The findings offered evidence that even the upper class in 18th- and 19th-century Vilnius experienced chronic health problems, including those related to poor nutrition.
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Quintessentially American, Ralph Lauren's brand focused on an upper-class lifestyle and came to be synonymous with "preppy" fashion throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
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His shambling, confected upper-class English persona tends to go down badly with Scots, a majority of whom voted against Brexit in the 20173 referendum.
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How long can a place and a people, or a subset of people like the middle- to upper-class white suburbanites here, stay the same?
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He rightly has little sympathy, especially when it comes to the tribe he refers to as "Default Man" — white, middle- and upper-class heterosexual men.
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Even Chile's upper class has historically shunned ostentation in favor of austere practicality — in Concepción, for example, the oldest buildings only date to the 1950s.
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She's drawn to the trappings of the upper-class, and her longest-lasting relationship is with Logan, the mega-rich heir to a newspaper fortune.
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And I'll mention one other relevant factoid here, which is that Gallup asks Americans, do you define yourself as lower class, middle class, upper class.
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While such craftiness was largely forgiven among his upper-class contemporaries, it soon came to be another excuse for Perry's detractors to do him down.
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I also like how she celebrates an economic success I hope is as permanent as she thinks—"middle to upper class," you don't hear that much.
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Despite his traditional upper class upbringing, a few quirky moments earned him fame among the public, who began to appreciate his plummy accent and posh manners.
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My school is in Boston and our children come from white, middle to upper class families who all have a legacy into an Ivy League school.
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His upper-class style limits his ability to appeal to working-class Brexit supporters, while his fondness for donning the jester's cap puts off thoughtful moderates.
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He says citizens have expressed the desire to diversify their leaders, rather than having them all come from elite boarding schools and other upper-class institutions.
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Hoover represents the interests of a tiny upper-class fraction; ensuring everyone gets that same level of voice would be an untenable drain on national GDP.
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Port Arthur's upper-class overseers called it Isle of the Dead or Isle de Mort, and they were buried with headstones on the island's highest point.
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Based on your observations of the folkways of the English upper class, could you give us some sense of what Markle may have gotten herself into?
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Novelist Tom Perrotta's books have become one of our most consistently enjoyable dissections of a very specific sort of America — upper-class, wryly comic, and white.
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The show makes the classic bet that people will be mesmerized by the upper class turmoil and white feminist struggle of the main character Midge Maisel.
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The sanctimoniousness also makes me uncomfortable because it feels similar in substance to the original IOC ethos of the upper-class, male version of the athlete.
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The stories are a little Wilde-like—upper-class Edwardian jam and governesses—but even more like the gruesome tales of Hilaire Belloc or Roald Dahl.
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This tendency to leave sports, particularly the fighting events labeled "heavy," to the professionals was also adopted in by upper class Greeks in the Hellenistic period.
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"Neighboring Sounds" was set in his own neighborhood, shot with wide angles; Clara's building is in an upper-class seaside quarter known as Boa Viagem Avenue.
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A 2017 study found that 26% of poor adults and 39% of working-class adults are married, compared to 56% of middle- and upper-class adults.
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ANY REDUCTIONS WE HAVE IN UPPER INCOME TAXES WILL BE OFFSET BY LESSDEDUCTIONS SO THAT THERE WILL BE NO ABSOLUTE TAX CUT FOR THE UPPER CLASS.
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This was not yet 40 years after the modern Games were founded on the clashing, upper-class sensibilities of noble competition, amateurism and exclusion of women.
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Here the narrative really takes off; watching through Juliet's irreverent eyes as MI5 recruits upper-class "girls" for possible spy work is fascinating and deliciously comic.
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In 1943, Piper married E. Digby Baltzell, who became a renowned sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, authoring several books on the upper class of Philadelphia.
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It won't help to note that Lazarin's characters are educated and middle- to upper-class, that her stories are often set in New York and Paris.
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The former fund manager and father of six mixes a consciously traditional style and upper-class mannerisms, which have afforded him a measure of online fame.
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Snapshot: Above, a scene from the popular new Amazon Prime India series "Made in Heaven," about a pair of wedding planners for the elite upper class.
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Kirchner's apartment in the upper-class neighborhood of Recoleta in Buenos Aires and her home in the city of Rio Gallegos, in southern Santa Cruz Province.
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Many of the black people I've met in West Baltimore say they feel as abandoned by upper-class black folks as they do by indifferent whites.
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While the burgeoning immigrant population would head to the Bowery for minstrel shows and revues, upper-class patrons preferred the more refined offerings focused around Broadway.
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She came from an upper class background, but her work was valuable to immigrants, who were desperate to learn how to assimilate in their new country.
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Philanthropy is still overwhelmingly controlled by middle- to upper-class white people, even though the numbers of donors and foundation staff members of color are growing.
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That showed him to be well behind Jacob Rees-Mogg, a caricature upper-class Conservative who is not even a minister, let alone in the cabinet.
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Both try to downplay the advantages they have, but in attempting to deny their good fortune they only further entrench themselves in their upper-class reality.
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He was a poor village boy, she was an upper-class Egyptian; his father was a grocer, hers a diplomat; she was petite, he was big.
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Interestingly enough, YouGov finds that blacks are viewed (second to "Upper class people") by 45 percent of Americans as "takers"; specifically, by 50 percent of whites.
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The image, sketched by Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada in 1910, was political satire that mocked Mexico's upper-class and their negative attitude toward indigenous people.
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Nearly 40 percent of survey respondents said that moving from middle- to upper-class is the least likely kind of class mobility that could occur today.
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" Steven T. Mnuchin, Mr. Trump's Treasury secretary, gave assurances as recently as last month that "there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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Because, you see, ANY upper middle upper class homemaker can plunk down $500 for a stand mixer with a paddle attachment and then never use it.
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"Expiation" movingly depicts a cloth merchant's Job-like devotion to his prodigal younger brother, who rapes and murders an upper-class schoolboy, stealing his roller skates.
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In a more recent book, "Coming Apart," Murray focusses on the widening divide between a self-segregated white upper class and an emerging white lower class.
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And as the New York Times explained on Saturday, many of the new En Marche candidates are like De Montchalin: extremely well-educated and upper class.
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Payne has talked about the film as an environmental metaphor, and the film's interest in the self-serving excesses of the privileged upper class isn't exactly subtle.
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Both Brandt and Castorp were artistically inclined, upper-class scions to wealthy Hamburg families, and both battled tuberculosis for years in a cushy sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland.
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But modernization expanded access to food, transportation, and labor-saving technologies, not to mention the sedentary desk jobs that are now a middle- and upper-class norm.
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She wasn't the kind of girl he could introduce to his upper-class family, and surprise, he was engaged and planned to go through with the wedding.
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Specifically, upper-middle-class and upper-class people gazed at the faces of others for a fifth of a second less than members of lower social classes.
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As even Brooks should realize, this upper class retains enormous power even in the age of Trump, making up as they do the elite of both parties.
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Its services proved so popular that Brazil's upper class women showed up at the center a few years ago, asking to deliver their babies there as well.
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Although salons were well-attended by both upper-class men and women, you could count on a grand society lady to be the host for the evening.
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He has been described as leading the revival of Colonial antiques and helping to make American antiques a must-have for many middle- and upper-class Americans.
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Mr. Lauren, in essence, made an upper-class aura accessible to everyone, from Hollywood starlets and hip-hop artists to countless people of humble origins and means.
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After all, she works in Manhattan, a city where, she says, upper-class women take very good care of themselves and age well, all over their bodies.
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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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However, one fashion history blogger points out that upper class men would also have had a servant to dress them, which casts some doubt on this theory.
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Nativist leaders were among the most distinguished men of the country: upper-class, highly educated and Protestant, men who personally had nothing to fear from new immigrants.
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With short hair and a boyish figure, this girl was skilled in typically upper-class masculine pursuits, like race-car driving, dancing, golfing, and drinking American cocktails.
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Born Helen Woods to an upper-class British family, then twice miserably married to older alcoholics, she published several novels under her first-married name, Helen Ferguson.
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Young Elio — played by the New-York-born Mr. Chalamet — is visiting his upper-class, academic parents (Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar) in the northern Italian countryside.
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Alec Baldwin, Salma Hayek and Jim Gaffigan star in this comedy that follows the misadventures of an upper-class couple after they realize that they're actually broke.
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In an upper-class development down the road, promising teenage prospects train in that N.B.A.-funded academy, its avowed goal to produce the first Indian N.B.A. player.
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Because every white person — particularly middle- and upper-class white people — knows that they are not as worried about their children becoming trapped in the system unjustly.
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This matters a great deal, because access to elite universities is one of the primary ways the upper-middle class and upper class pass on their advantages.
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I suspect that versions of these ideas will be embraced within my lifetime by a segment of the upper class and a certain kind of religious family.
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As I walked through the two floors of the museum I kept asking myself, where am I in this celebration of upper-class gay white male creativity?
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Instead, the southern edge of the city, and especially an area called Zaisan, is home to the wealthiest of Mongolia's emerging upper class, as well as many expatriates.
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I also believe that the social classes will be more divided: The workmen will dress like workmen, and the upper class will be dressed in natural, luxurious fabrics.
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The story of a mousy woman who falls for an upper-class dreamboat, it took four months and lots of word of mouth before it became a hit.
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"We don't trust American policy in Iraq," said Laith Al Adhari, a member of Asaib's political bureau, located in a sprawling compound of Baghdad's upper-class Jadriyah neighborhood.
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While considered taboo in Japan at the time, tattooing quickly became a commodity for Europe's upper class, continuing to be influenced by other trendy mediums of the times.
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At that point, upper-class Iranians still believed they could be part of the regime and elect reformers and moderates who could then change the regime from within.
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It's a reminder that behind stories of upper-class self-actualization like Elio's is the hard and often unseen work of people who have none of his luxury.
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Though the door to society portraiture had closed because Oakley's family no longer had access to the upper class, the door to magazine and book illustration had opened.
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As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived.
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Mr Weissbourd says he can think of three possible reasons for this: incompetence, pressure from tax lawyers and a desire to keep upper-class whites in the city.
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Pew defines upper class as adults whose annual household income is more than double the national median ($55,775 in 2016), after incomes have been adjusted for household size.
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Most of the images in our world from before the advent of affordable digital cameras came from a largely white, largely male, predominantly heterosexual middle and upper class.
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If they did, it would be an insurmountable union that would really force some benefits from upper-class people to make the lives of working-class people better.
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That tomb was found to be cut into an older burial chapel where members of the small upper class who were close to the royal family were buried.
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Middle class and upper class kids went to college or university, and then often into professions where earning was delayed until adulthood—law, or medicine, things like that.
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And while George is still wearing shorts — as is customary for upper-class boys — he has upgraded his sock choice from knee-length to a mature ankle-length.
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He was born in 1909 in São Paulo into a cosmopolitan family; his merchant father was a German-Jewish immigrant, his upper-class mother a Brazilian Roman Catholic.
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A pageant girl with a perfect, youthful face (even well into her 50s) who dresses like an upper class professional is an incredibly tight ideal to fit into.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in November that there would be "no absolute tax cut for the upper class" — a concept that Democrats have dubbed the Mnuchin rule.
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Despite some early stumbles, "Ark" is an engaging and entertaining novel, and an insightful take on just how easy it can be to slip from the upper class.
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Fred Perry polos and Ben Sherman "Bennies" button-downs have also both been historical fashion choices of white supremacists because of their associations with the British upper class.
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She has a white husband, two new kids, and an upper class lifestyle far from all the dangers in Freeridge — but also far from everyone Monse cares about.
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She argues that Didion is always writing about her own taste, which is the taste of an educated upper-class West Coast white woman: minimalist, but expensively so.
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But the film's biggest pleasure comes courtesy of a hilariously hammy Jagger, who delivers such gems of art-speak as "Modigliani provenance" with a gleefully upper-class air.
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It was populated mostly by middle- and upper-class people, including many African-American professional men who had fair-skinned wives and children whose complexions matched their mothers'.
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"I love flowers," says Lai, with intermittent clips of an upper-class British accent, as he enjoys a breakfast of strawberries and egg sandwiches served on china platters.
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Thirty-six percent of children born to a working-class mother are born out of wedlock, versus 13 percent of those born to middle- and upper-class mothers.
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While middle- and upper-class Venezuelans have emigrated, young women from low-income backgrounds have flocked to regional pageant castings, desperate for any opportunity to help their families.
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In Europe as in the United States, a growing immigrant population serves this upper class while seeming to compete with downscale natives for jobs, housing and social benefits.
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And, quite ironically, it's all from an Oscar-hopeful drama about the divorce of two upper-class creatives—the kind of characters some people on Twitter would ridicule.
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"We have still an expansion of the middle and upper class in China," Kering's group managing director Jean-Francois Palus told analysts following the company's half-year results.
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The legs of the statue are covered with careful inscriptions in Greek left by upper-class Roman travelers well over 1,000 years after the statue was set up.
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Harvard assigns freshmen to houses at random, and while it's technically permitted for upper-class students to switch houses or live off campus, both are fairly strongly discouraged.
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But Wilder's humor is on point when it comes to skewering the pretensions of Long Island's upper class; this is as sharp and wry as romantic comedy gets.
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Afterward, participants filled out a survey and reported, among other things, what social class they fell into: poor, working class, middle class, upper-middle class, or upper class.
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"Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Mnuchin said.
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Hence situations like what went down in Laurelhurst, an upper-class Seattle neighborhood, when liberals parents became infuriated when teachers chose to wear Black Lives Matter shirts to class.
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With "Downton Abbey," an addictive series about an upper-class British family and its household servants, Mr. Fellowes has already proven himself adept at fashioning soap opera-worthy cliffhangers.
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Margaret Thatcher loathed the Foreign Office because she thought it was full of upper-class eunuchs who believed in managing decline at home and sucking up to foreigners abroad.
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Royal tradition dictates that women must wear hats at weddings, stemming from the early half of the 20th century when upper class women didn't show their hair in public.
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It's a genuine melting pot so it is good to see the royal family embracing someone who is not white, [upper] class, typical people who the royal family married.
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Cooking for a partner is a popular date choice among her clients, many of whom are upper-class men, and helps show you're laid back and down-to-earth.
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The Amazon comedy focuses on the life of an upper class white woman in 1950s New York, but recast with a political awakening sub-plot fit for "progressive" times.
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Now, I would be remiss in not acknowledging the fact that many of the advancements in weed consumption enrich white business owners and serve primarily (white) upper-class customers.
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Her sources range from official accounts and court records to the diaries and letters of Indian and British soldiers and officers, upper-class colonial women and rebellious Indian housewives.
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The upper class will also reap some benefits: those with earnings in the top one percent of the population will see their taxes fall by around $2900,220006 a year.
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The national electoral bloc that we now call the Hispanic vote was created by middle- and upper-class Mexican-American Democrats who wanted more clout in government and politics.
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Shaw frequently wrote and said that he saw Eliza going on to marry Freddy, an amiable upper-class suitor (a love-sick puppy in Bobby Conte Thornton's emotional portrayal).
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"India has a rapidly growing and prospering urban middle and upper class, which often looks aspirationally to American society for symbols, brands, and status markers to emulate," Dasgupta explained.
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An upper class rebel, she spent the Second World War in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, before returning to her forlorn, conflict-ravaged homeland at the height of rationing.
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Red families tend toward conservatism, and blue tend toward progressivism, but the models share an upper-class stress on respectability and a strong taboo against out-of-wedlock birth.
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" Tassis also doesn't believe gay people have a moral duty to support other marginalized people, like refugees: "Humanitarianism," as he called it, is a "decadent millionaire upper-class immorality.
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The family's assimilation into America's upper class means its roots in the working class, which are still present in Dre's memory, are fading further and further into the past.
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In Bollywood and real-life, the pomp of upper-class ceremonies — including the age-old traditions, battling egos and patriarchal powers at play — has captivated audiences across the globe.
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Highlights: The overemphasized, mesmerizing isolated movements, which you can also find in … A stunning three-act caricature of the elegant upper class trying to be hip like the kids.
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Republicans are banking on their intuition that massive tax cuts for corporations and the upper class will bring back jobs and investments, to grow the economy at historic rates.
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But the pursuit of sporting activities was one of the few elements of the upper-class lifestyle that did become part of nearly every level of the social strata.
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Living in Mexico, he was keen that his kids should never behave in the manner of los niños bien — the entitled and often abusive princelings of the upper class.
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Upper-class Parisiennes changed their clothes seven or eight times a day, so they had many opportunities to model their wardrobes for society photographers like Otto Wegener and Nadar.
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Benny's passion for luxury strikes a contrast with the people around him as those of lower social status find their lives mingled with members of the careless upper class.
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Facing a high probability of harm, officers must ignore their fear, steady their nerves and do their jobs well to save lives in a middle- to upper-class community.
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For example, Gates's upper-class background and private education enabled him to gain extra programming experience when less than 0.01 percent of his generation then had access to computers.
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Do they continue their march towards being an upper-class suburban party of the professional-managerial class plus the working-class minorities who can't stomach the other side's racism?
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Kuczynski is popular in urban and upper class districts but lacks strong backing outside of the capital Lima, home to about a third of the country's 30 million people.
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As seen in the chart above, though, earning an annual income above $135,000 puts a three-person family among the 19 percent of American households that are upper-class.
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On particularly troubled blocks, the city converted the asphalt surface into a gravelly dirt, a peculiar sight in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods in the center of a city.
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Ki-woo arrives at the home of the Park family, a Modernist palace set in the upper-class Seongbuk-dong neighborhood situated high above the rest of the city.
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What it all amounts to is a much different picture, at least in middle-to-upper-class America, from how this age cohort has been viewed in the past.
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Manson's followers were largely middle-class white women who'd been all but stripped of their original identities, while their victims were ostensibly untouchable members of Hollywood's elite upper class.
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"Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Mnuchin told CNBC.
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Is there a more effective way to get under the skin of conservative, rich, white guy than to be openly gay and blast loud music in his upper-class neighborhood?
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Now that the upper class has access to apps like Grindr, they're not cruising on the streets anymore — the fear of violence and extortion is the highest for trans people.
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Collage was already being practiced during the Victorian era by English upper-class women such as Georgina Berkeley, though she is very unlikely to end up on anyone's orals bibliography.
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At one point in his life, he decided to swap his upper-class image for something a bit more accesible, so he started wearing sporty clothes, and horrible polo shirts.
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More than two centuries ago it was popular for upper-class British and French to have their portraits painted dressed as Turkish sultans, which the historian Edward Said called "orientalism".
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And the reduction in racial housing discrimination has enabled middle- and upper-class blacks and Hispanics to move away from minority neighbourhoods—leaving the poor behind and stuck in place.
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But there's a different kind of boxing emerging — white-collar boxing, featuring matches between middle and upper-class people who have good jobs, often working in the City of London.
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In contrast, 2012's criteria for admittance to a Noah's Ark ship are upper class status, gene diversity, and wealth, while in Intersteller, the three criteria are American, American, American.
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A poorly-paid majority of disposable, relatively anonymous short-timers who function as the league's proletariat, grinding and hoping to last long enough to make it into the upper class.
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Open Book The filmmaker Whit Stillman's 1990 debut, "Metropolitan," about a group of young upper-class New Yorkers, immediately established a tonal kinship between the writer-director and Jane Austen.
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Second, and more importantly, the share of black men in the middle or upper class -- as measured by their family income -- has risen from 38% in 1960 to 57% today.
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In 'Absalom, Absalom,' incest is less of a taboo for an upper-class Southern family than acknowledging the one drop of black blood that would clearly soil the family line.
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Merz said for him the word "upper class" conjured images of people who had inherited a great deal of money or a company that allowed them to enjoy their lives.
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In fact I have one caucasian client who grew up with black friends, played at a prominent school, has done very well for himself, came from an upper-class family.
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Some of the refugees in Canada have middle- and upper-class backgrounds, including a businessman who started a Canadian version of his medical marketing company within a month after arriving.
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He boasted to me in the humble-brag way peculiar to British upper-class men that, trying to juggle three jobs, he was unable to do any of them properly.
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It stages a mob drama between two rival bordellos — one serving the wealthy upper class men of Georgian London and the other striving to improve its financial and social position.
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Winchester's upper-class Boston priggishness, however, turned out to be balanced by impressive medical skills, a heartfelt appreciation of the arts, real wit and a surprising level of compassionate humanity.
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And Dern, as always, walks a high wire between camp and despair as a queen bee parent at the upper-class school around which much of the miniseries' action revolves.
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Monument makers in Minnesota took care not to limit the suffrage memorial built in St. Paul two decades ago to the upper-class white women who were easiest to identify.
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Poor is defined as those below the 20th percentile or without high school diplomas, and the middle and upper class as those above the 50th percentile or with college degrees.
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During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Mnuchin was asked about previous comments, in which he said there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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But in April 1788, after desperate students began looting the graves of upper-class citizens, public outrage boiled over, leading to two days of anarchy often called the Doctors' Riots.
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In "Absalom, Absalom," incest is less of a taboo for an upper-class Southern family than acknowledging the one drop of black blood that would clearly soil the family line.
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She, along with my grandmother, who was 26 at the time, protested the Cuban government's decision for days despite it being frowned upon for upper class women to protest publicly.
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During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Mnuchin was asked about previous comments, in which he said there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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I lived in these two very different words: my neighborhood, which was mostly black, and my school, which was a mostly white, private, upper-class Christian college in conservative Mississippi.
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Although nearly every European country had their own coterie of experts, the Italian and Spanish masters were in vogue amongst trendy and young middle and upper class men, especially in England.
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When high achievers from the working class to go to an elite school, it gives them a better chance of graduating and joining the middle or upper class, the study says.
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" It seemed natural that Charles would be attracted to upper-class Camilla — Lady Annabel Goldsmith tells Bedell Smith that Camilla was "an intensely warm maternal laughing creature, with enormous sex appeal.
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He told CNN last year that contrary to popular belief, recruits from Europe and the U.S. are far more likely to be educated and come from middle or upper class families.
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Now it is threatening to encroach on jobs seen as belonging to the upper-middle class to the upper class just below the richest in society, from medical specialists to lawyers.
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Part of the reason this generated so much interest is the New Yorker's audience, which represents a very particular kind of liberalism: educated, upper-class, and proud of its intellectual sophistication.
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It has widened the gap between the upper class and the working class, diminished the middle class, and destroyed the economic opportunities for which our nation has been known for generations.
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Fluency in the classics was de rigueur among the American upper class into which Eva was born in 1874, but her interest in Greek culture soared to exceptional, all-encompassing heights.
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Part 1: Wedding Bells (& Bills) If marriage is a status symbol (today, 56% of upper-class Americans are married, versus 26% of poor Americans) then weddings are the ultimate show-off.
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However, a very valid criticism many have pointed out is how Nancy Drew's feminist legacy is entrenched in white upper class privilege, with abundant classism and racism in the original books.
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The independent movie stars British-raised actresses Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke as upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut who rekindle a childhood friendship after years of growing apart.
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"Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," he told the hosts.
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Although they qualify as "upper class, " after taxes, fixed costs, childcare and discretionary expenses, there's only $7,300 left each year to go towards other savings goals, investment accounts or retirement funds.
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Penguin Books was cleared of obscenity charges for publishing D. H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover," about a sexually frustrated woman's affair with the gamekeeper on her upper-class husband's estate.
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To qualify as upper class in the U.S., the median family of four needs to earn an annual income of at least $144,73, and in some more expensive cities vastly more.
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After a childhood of training, the teenage Belles are introduced to upper-class society and tasked with transforming the hair, skin and bone structure of the race-fluid rich and royal.
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Both soccer and American football come from the same set of precursor sports, which became popular in upper-class English schools in the early 19th century and spread across the Atlantic.
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Cavendish's readers were largely educated—which means they were largely male and upper class—and her ideas resonated with only a few of the freer and more radical thinkers among them.
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And when this message is delivered to poor women by overwhelmingly middle- or upper-class white men (as most of the legislators passing these laws are), it adds insult to injury.
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As might be expected of a coffee-table book about upper-class vertical living, "Life at the Top: New York's Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings" (Vendome Press) is rich in such details.
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The unlikeliness, and mutual risk, of the connection between Mr. Lambert (an upper-class, privileged gay man) and his partner in management, Chris Stamp (a straight street kid) impressed them deeply.
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Think of how upper-class America didn't notice the crescendo of misery that became the opioid epidemic until the Trump phenomenon sent journalists out to the hinterland looking for an explanation.
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Whether intentionally or not, the image seems to parody the flawless Hollywood studio portraits of yore and also evokes the "fascinator" hats favored by British upper-class women at royal weddings.
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In its original form, the dress was worn in a baggy style, mostly by upper-class women during the Qing dynasty, which ruled China for more than 250 years, until 1912.
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Published between 1992 and 2011, they follow an upper-class Englishman on a 40-year journey of recovery from horrific childhood abuse, addiction and the soul-killing snobbery of his milieu.
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The crowd appeared to be upper-class and not particularly diverse, with many people wearing crisp button-up shirts and slacks, dresses, and turtleneck sweaters — but the space didn't feel pretentious.
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"Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Mnuchin said on CNBC.
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There will be a big tax cut for the middle class, but any tax cuts we have for the upper class will be offset by less deductions that pay for it.
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In a society that associates light skin with upper class and caste, my unmarried aunts would slather themselves with a pungent milk cream and roam the house like so many ghosts.
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The upper-class catgirl Stella, for example, is a highly intelligent and empathetic woman who regularly visits the bar in order to escape the superficiality of the city's uptown shopping centers.
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996) thought to combine these two worlds — poor and extremely upper class — by dumping a street-wise Will (Will Smith) with his wealthy California family.
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So, when an AskReddit thread popped up discussing the experience of sliding from an upper-class lifestyle to a low-to-middle-class lifestyle, we were curious to see what users revealed.
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The drawing room exuded a sort of Victorian upper-class taste — Persian rugs, carved chairs, a gilt-framed portrait of a fair-skinned woman in a flouncy dress, holding a chubby baby.
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He told CNN last year that contrary to popular belief, recruits from Europe and the United States are far more likely to be educated and come from middle or upper class families.
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At his confirmation hearing, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made an unambiguous promise that there would be "no absolute tax cut for the upper class" in the Trump administration's vision of tax reform.
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Yes, Orange Is the New Black is still nominally the story of Piper Chapman, an upper-class white woman who ends up in prison for something stupid she did in her 20s.
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She wrote that riding, specifically, improved the appetite, and made "black shadows and morbid fancies disappear from the mental horizon," perhaps referencing the trend of hysteria amongst middle and upper-class women.
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The German upper class and leaders of Europe both passed up a number of chances to confront and undermine Hitler before he took control first of Germany and then of continental Europe.
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Schumpeter noted in a previous column on Mexico that it is unusual in having both a global upper class (thanks to American education) and a global peasantry (thanks to emigration to America).
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Liberal outlets have tried to make sense of the massive divide between "our" (upper-class liberals working in tech) vision of the country and "their" (blue-collar workers) vision of the country.
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"Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Mnuchin told CNBC's "SquawkBox " then.
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" The so-called Mnuchin rule refers to his pledge on CNBC late in 2016 that in a Trump administration tax plan, "there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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Mr. Hamilton's handful of plays and novels are largely concentrated on the same upper class that was grist for his cartoons, and hold to their same satirical mix of acid and amusement.
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Tying "chained-CPI" Social Security cuts to upper-class tax increases no Republican Congress was ever going to pass was an indication that Obama was not actually trying to cut Social Security.
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LOOKING back on the years before war broke out across Europe in 1914, Vita Sackville-West, an aristocratic English novelist, remembered an upper-class world of "warmth and security, leisure and continuity".
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Meanwhile, among the first groups of Americans with addiction to be labeled as innocent victims of overprescribing doctors and unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies were, you guessed it, white middle- and upper-class women.
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He did this by figuring out that in a student body election, all votes count equally — so he targeted lowerclassmen and unpopular kids, who the upper-class hotshot candidates were looking past.
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Many privileged WASPs pushed Yale and other schools to cap the number of Jews admitted and generally tried to transform the upper class into a caste defined on ethnic and communal lines.
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An insider-outsider wherever he went, Singh was born to a feudal upper-class family in Rajasthan who lost most of their land and fortune following India's independence in 1947 from Britain.
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The number of Chinese students in the United States has exploded over the last 15 years, as American colleges have tapped into China's ascendant upper class as a major source of revenue.
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The result deepens wealth inequality, because only the upper class can so easily avoid the law—it's not like the sales clerk at Target has the ability to hide her income offshore.
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The arrival of multinational tech companies brought with it a new upper class (Google came in 2006, Amazon in 2014 and Alibaba in 2017), but most Israelis still live paycheck to paycheck.
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He's the son of a British rock star and a groupie, a war veteran turned London private investigator, an Oxford dropout whose relationship with an upper-class beauty just hit the rocks.
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Filmed in black and white, the leisurely, meditative "Roma" follows a turbulent year in the life of a maid working for an upper-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
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Churchill and Orwell, dissenters on the right and the left, were attuned early to totalitarian threats, and spent their prime years fighting upper-class consensus in the twilight of the British imperium.
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Most of his clients are aged between their thirties and their sixties and are mainly middle- and upper-class white women, but he's seen women from a variety of ethnicities and backgrounds.
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When the poor family gains the illusion of the upper hand, havoc ensues, and it becomes clear that Parasite is a dark indictment of the upper class and the damage they cause.
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For a week, Fritz and his partners traveled along Sri Lanka's southern coast, measuring high-water marks on buildings by dangling yellow tape measures from the filigreed balconies of upper-class homes.
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Previous research, as the authors note in the paper, has found that, compared to members of the upper class, members of the working class have a more interdependent and holistic social outlook.
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He was a working-class kid among the upper class—at the time, twenty per cent of freshmen came from just five exclusive boarding schools—and a conservative on a liberal campus.
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Half of the photos were of people who made over $150,000 a year, which they designated as upper class, and the other half were people who made under $35,000, or working class.
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" While upper-class families have "more than recovered from the losses experienced during the Great Recession," Pew notes, "the wealth of lower- and middle-income families in 2016 was comparable to 1989 levels.
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Both shows are as much about class as they are about race, with characters who come from lower-class backgrounds but join the moneyed ranks of the upper class after achieving professional success.
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But, even though they qualify as "upper class, " after taxes, fixed costs, childcare and discretionary expenses, there's only $280,2116 left each year to go towards other savings goals, investment accounts or retirement funds.
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Thanks to advancements in technology, the ability reduce some of the excess fat or tighten up the sagging skin that accompanies aging recently has become a possibility for individuals beyond the upper class.
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In the long run, this could create hierarchical societies in which an upper class of full citizens exploits an underclass of powerless foreigners, as happens today in Qatar and several other Gulf States.
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While this generous financial aid may make Yale affordable for lower, middle and some upper class students, many students who attend Yale come from wealthy families and earn more than $200,000 a year.
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" The statement adds that investigators are looking into allegations from the families of freshman players "who accuse upper class teammates of an ongoing pattern of assaults allegedly committed under the guise of hazing.
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"Things don't take as long getting attention when [upper-class people] ask for something, and they don't face a lot of the things that happen in Chicago on a daily basis," she added.
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But, even though they qualify as "upper-class," after taxes, fixed costs, childcare and discretionary expenses, there's only $7,300 left each year to go towards other savings goals, investment accounts or retirement funds.
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She was very upper class, and ahead of her time in terms of modern art, personal style, using marijuana and LSD — very much a precursor to the culture we associate with the 1960s.
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But even though they qualify as "upper class, " after taxes, fixed costs, childcare and discretionary expenses, there's only $5,700 left each year to go towards other savings goals, investment accounts or retirement funds.
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But, even though they qualify as "upper class, " after taxes, fixed costs, childcare and discretionary expenses, there's only $7,300 left each year to go towards other savings goals, investment accounts or retirement funds.
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Virgin's business class — it brands it as "Upper Class" — has been a top product for years, but the seats were beginning to show their age and starting to lag behind some competitors' offerings.
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When I first dipped into the novels of Anthony Powell a few decades ago, he seemed to me a fussily minor snob, sharing Waugh's upper-class milieu but without Waugh's ferocious comic cruelty.
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Even though it easily qualifies as "upper class, " after taxes, fixed costs, childcare and discretionary expenses, there's only $7,300 left each year to go towards other savings goals, investment accounts or retirement funds.
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Potato chips first showed up in The Times 120 years ago today, in a rather ethnocentric article reprinted from The Baltimore Sun listing typical breakfast menus for upper-class families in Puerto Rico.
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Also true to her mother's legacy, young Mary Shelley refused to obey the upper—class English insistence that women should make babies but never art — though she did not do so without consequence.
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But at a news conference on Wednesday, Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lanka's minister of defense, said most of the bombers had been well educated and had come from middle-class or upper-class families.
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To many here, he represents a kind of royalty of the African National Congress, an upper class that has grown removed from the average South African that the party still claims to champion.
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For all its drama over the years, the home lives up to its namesake — it's a French palace befit for royals, or at least the royal upper-class of 21st century San Francisco.
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But he also gave rise to a kind of middle- and upper-class terror that he was dictatorial and corrupt, and that his populist appeal challenged the sustained privilege of wealthy Bangkok elites.
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Parasite, which tells the story of a poor family who infiltrates the lives of an upper-class one, swept much of the Golden Globes, including Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film and Screenplay.
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Their focus on housing the middle- and upper-class is one bone of contention, as is the domination of foreign developers, who he said enjoy unfair government incentives like tax breaks, said Omenya.
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Her best-known work is "The Light in the Piazza," the tale of an upper-class American visiting Italy with her mentally disabled adult daughter, who becomes enamored of a young Italian man.
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"Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Mr. Mnuchin said in the interview.
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Housing and education policies, paired with the individual choices of white upper-class parents, have led us to a place where our schools are more segregated than at the time of Brown v.
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Even though they easily qualify as "upper class, " after taxes, fixed costs, childcare and discretionary expenses, there's only $2500,300 left each year to go towards other savings goals, investment accounts or retirement funds.
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And that's because the people who write American fiction in all its forms are usually members of the upper class, who have trouble understanding the kinds of emotions that drive Trump-like figures.
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Americans whose parents have low incomes are more likely to have low incomes themselves, and less likely to make it into the middle or upper class, than their counterparts in other advanced countries.
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That, too, is a broken promise that violates Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's confirmation hearing promise that the Trump administration would pursue "no absolute tax cut for the upper class" in its policy agenda.
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I wrestled with the idea of enlisting the help of my maturest students in securing such a large space, ultimately deciding that I would take only volunteers from my upper-class classroom aides.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive trailer of Drunk Parents, Hayek, 52, and Baldwin, 60, star as Nancy and Frank Teagarten, an upper-class couple bidding their only child goodbye as she sets off to college.
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"Kandukondain Kandukondain" (2000), a Tamil romance film, and "Kumkum Bhagya" (2014), an Indian soap opera, are both based on "Sense and Sensibility"; "Aisha" (2010) is an adaptation of "Emma" set amid Delhi's upper class.
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This prompts Susan to get lunch with her stiffly Southern, upper-class mother (Laura Linney, rocking the bouffant-and-pearls look like no one else), who cautions her not to make any hasty decisions.
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For example, Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, has said the tax plan would have "no absolute tax cut for the upper class, " though most independent reviews of the proposal say it would.
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But she has been scoring points by presenting herself as more in touch with the public than her rich opponent, derided by media for describing himself as "upper middle class" rather than upper class.
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Art theft baffles Illinois museum With "Downton Abbey," an addictive series about an upper-class British family and its household servants, Mr. Fellowes has already proven himself adept at fashioning soap opera-worthy cliffhangers.
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Until fairly recently in the grand scheme of cheese, American cheese was broadly assumed by middle- and upper-class consumers to be a mass-produced commodity whose modern trappings are both disquieting and passé.
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Valles says the packages it sells are with "high-quality providers" (4- and 5-star hotels) but offered at "discounted prices" intended to appeal to a mass market of middle- and upper-class travelers.
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The relationship between paparazzi and their famous subjects were one of the few places in America where the working class can interact in a symbiotic relationship with the upper class on a daily basis.
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The cemetery's slide into obscurity over the next century tracked roughly with that of Georgetown's black population, which found itself increasingly marginalized as the neighborhood gentrified and evolved into a largely upper-class preserve.
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Below, CNBC Make It highlighted eight U.S. cities where a sizable $150,000 annual salary puts you in the middle class, not above it, and what you have to earn to qualify as upper-class.
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Black men who worked full-time, had some college education, or were married were much more likely to be members of the middle or upper class by the time they got to their 50s.
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A family that grosses $150,000 in income in any given year living in New York City or Boston without massive assets sitting in the bank isn't "upper class" or "rich" in any real way.
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It has taken me from middle-class Ohio to two of the most elite institutions in American education, giving me a permanent marker of upper-class status and a near guarantee of material comfort.
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Yet, because he shed so much light on the physical toll paid by the working class, farmers, minorities and displaced members of the upper class, he is hardly a propagandist for capitalism's status quo.
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She lives in a slum, but attends an upper-class high school; ultimately, Starr witnesses the shooting of her unarmed best friend by a police officer, which sends her life into an extreme tailspin.
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The upper class also disproportionately benefited from Trump's tax cut, while the working class is getting no such preferential treatment—on Thursday, Trump announced plans to cancel a pay raise for civilian federal workers.
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Americans have changed their dining habits: The country's upper class has soured on paying $15 to $20 per meal for bland bar fare, and the chain sustaining middle class can no longer afford it.
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He went to Vann's home of Norfolk, Va., and found out the boy was born out of wedlock to a prostitute whose clients were upper-class men who preferred not to visit the brothel.
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"It's not only a moral thing or a commitment to international law," he said, "but it's also going to impact the businesses of many of these particularly middle- and upper-class people of Brunei."
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" Ms. Wright's article went viral, drawing attention everywhere from European news outlets to Redneck Revolt, an American website that describes itself as opposing both white supremacy and the condescension of "upper class urban liberals.
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Part of the reason, said Anatol Lieven, a senior researcher at the New America Foundation, was that Westerners initially saw Ms. Bhutto through a narrow lens as a British-educated upper-class liberal woman.
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I think if you come from a middle class or upper class family, and you have a mental illness, it's a lot more likely that you're gonna get help and counseling and proper medications.
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A middle- to upper-class Saudi family typically has two vehicles, one driven by the man of the house and a second car in which a full-time chauffeur transports his wife and children.
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"The reason why Aadhaar is now becoming an issue in the national media — and internationally, too — is because the problems with it are now affecting urban, educated, middle- and upper-class Indians," Khera said.
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Happy Ending is ultimately a disappointment — a toothless, one-note story that chides upper-class white people for their insensitivity and obliviousness, in part by treating a series of mute, confused black refugees like props.
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Kyle is a recognizable type as a laughable, upper-class Marxist, but the use of Zinn's book paints left-wing politics and economics as just one more thing to discard on the way to adulthood.
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This may explain why the University of Chicago's General Social Survey recently found that just two-fifths of self-described "upper-class" Americans say their taxes are too high, the lowest share in 40 years.
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That is because, from the 19th century onwards, people who aspire to govern Britain have imitated the upper-class pronunciation of the South-East, often known as Received Pronunciation (RP) and associated with pukka schools.
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Jenkins' father, Charles Dorrance Foster, was a lawyer, banker and member of the Pennsylvania legislature, and she received the early childhood musical education duly afforded to a member of the upper class at the time.
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Of course, there's more to class than income — upper class can also be identified by net worth, education and occupation, for example — but household income can be a useful tool by which to group people.
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Since upper-class Americans can take advantage of various deductions and loopholes in the tax code, the federal government requires them to complete a secondary tax form which looks at things like trusts and estates.
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Students Are Bussed in from Nearby Communities While most of the student body are from Parkland and Coral Springs — two upper-class suburbs in Broward County — other students are brought in from around the county.
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" That means a lot of middle- and upper-class moms will need to think beyond the language of luck, which sounds a lot like this: "We're so lucky to be able to afford this daycare.
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In 1920, he launched his first nonviolent campaign against the British, and within a few years he had transformed the Indian National Congress, hitherto a party of upper-class Indians, into a vigorous mass movement.
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Zamalek has traditionally been home to middle- and upper-class Cairenes, and we rented an apartment on the ground floor of an old building that, like many structures on our street, was beautiful but fading.
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Middle- and upper-class white people aren't forced to acknowledge and feel guilty for the public benefits they receive, while poor mothers are made to feel ashamed for using food stamps to feed their kids.
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Some things can also raise them, such as hanging out with smarter people—moving a child from an impoverished household to a middle- or upper-class one can result in sizable gains in IQ scores.
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Beach Bum is a stoner flick with a heart, a celebration of a goofball named Moondog who eschews the trappings of upper-class Miami in the hopes of spending one legendary night on the Keys.
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Adapted from a novel by Austin Wright, the film stars Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in a complex film-within-a-film: a gritty psychological thriller tucked inside an urbane contemplation of upper-class life.
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The novel, said the book's translator, Lucy Renner Jones, is a pitch-perfect portrait of an era in which to be a member of the upper class was to be a slave to family duty.
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But Bush was also the president of Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, a big homeownership push and a larger child tax credit and lower rates for almost everyone, not just the upper class.
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" The perspective of the overwhelmingly white, male, upper-class demographic represented in the archive frames a body of communications that, as the artists write for Rhizome, "encompasses a wide gamut of human emotion and activity.
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Limp Bizkit and The Strokes were the perfect foils for each other, really—a group of blockheads who thought they were making intelligent art versus a bunch of well educated upper-class kids playing dumb.
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The curators sought to provoke a conversation about the relation — or disjunction — between the upper-class history of the mansion and its current context in the largely working-class and African American district of Harlem.
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When these upper-class buyers finish up and take their speedy, modern trains home, your character follows the cattle cars full of husks as they descend ever deeper into the darkness and the toxic muck.
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At Milton Academy outside Boston, where she attended high school, the preppy New England culture — summers in Nantucket, clothes from Lilly Pulitzer, the upper-class social ritual known as cotillion — was utterly foreign to her.
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The coalition that Barack Obama built across two presidential elections united minority constituencies with the upper-class intelligentsia and promised to champion their diverse interests against the remains of the country's white Christian heartland core.
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The house is widely viewed as an infringement on one of the many unwritten rules that, over a century after Ms. Wharton lived here, still govern some aspects of upper-class life in New England.
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Attachment theory was developed in the mid-20th century by a British psychiatrist, John Bowlby, whose own upper-class British upbringing included the loss of a beloved nanny, and an early trip to boarding school.
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While job opportunity might be a prime motivator, I personally know tons of Trump supports — upper-middle and upper class among them — for whom the anti-PC pushback made them reach for their MAGA hats.
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People may think that opera is for the elites and the upper-class, but let me tell you, the majority of opera singers make very little money and most of us are far from elite.
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In Tuesday's letter, Democrats said bipartisan tax reform should offer no relief for the wealthy, citing Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's assertion last November that there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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" Comparing Africans (and laboratory animals) to a representative of the white upper class, he concluded, with some disdain, that all their torment combined "is utterly negligible compared with one painful night of a hysterical bluestocking.
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"Among the upper class in Pyongyang, she is a frightening presence," because of her relationship with her brother, said An Chan-il, a former North Korean military officer who now runs a think tank in Seoul.
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As Collins begins to spy on Duffy, he also comes to meet the wealthy Nan Noble (Emily Mortimer) who introduces him to the happenings of the upper class — which leads to a heist of epic proportions.
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"The upper class is not affected but the rest of us suffer," said Cristobal Casimiro, as he sold toy violins from a blanket laid out on the street in a middle class district of Mexico City.
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Roy Plomley, the show's creator and host for over 40 years (pictured), greeted his guests with clipped vowels and upper-class charm; male castaways were often treated to lunch at the Garrick, a private club, beforehand.
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The celebrities voice an entire cast of real-life rescue dogs, synonymous with the movie's premise as Lady, who once lived with an upper-class becomes a stray and meets Tramp, another dog from the streets.
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Patrick Melrose is a five-part miniseries, based on five autobiographical Edward St. Aubyn novels, tracing the author's troubled youth and his journey toward domestic normalcy — all set against the backdrop of the English upper-class.
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Widespread automation creates a rift between two sections of society: The wealthy upper class made up of the engineers and managers who keep society running, and the lower class whose skills have been replaced by machines.
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Those criticisms missed how smart the show is about money and class (particularly when it comes to Lorelai's attempts to put her own upper-class past behind her), or how beautifully it deals with intergenerational strife.
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Lady Greville's book anticipated the type of criticism that would almost certainly accompany the promotion of sports among upper-class women by choosing sports that reinforced gendered norms and did not make a woman less feminine.
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But under this criteria, the white working class also includes a large group of young people and enrolled students who will soon join the middle or upper class and aren't necessarily facing any real material deprivation.
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Middle- and upper-class families spent lavishly on funerals, which would include not just silk winding sheets and coffins made of hardwood or brass, but also hired attendants waving black ostrich feathers—the more the better.
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We found, for instance, that the odds that black men make it to the middle or upper class are at least three times higher for those men who marry, compared to their peers who never married.
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Until 2014, Obama's budget proposals included an offer to reduce the growth of Social Security benefits by changing how the cost-of-living increase is calculated, in exchange for a deal including upper-class tax increases.
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In "The Souvenir," Byrne shimmers as a shy and uncomfortably upper-class filmmaker in early 1980s London who falls for Anthony (Tom Burke), a dandyish underling in the Foreign Office who is also a heroin addict.
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Her mother, Carol, slips from one identity to another, but always ambitiously: The Missouri farm girl morphs into a Miss America pageant finalist, the upper-class New York wife rebels and becomes a natural food devotee.
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To Britons of a certain milieu, Mr. Trump is a bit grubby, a bit common, a bit — as Nancy Mitford, that chronicler of elite British life, would put it — "non-U," (that is, non-upper class).
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Our millennial co-workers are correct to fault Generation X with fetishizing a worldview that is politically impotent, that represents a dead-end philosophically and aesthetically, and that is steeped in white, male, upper-class privilege.
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On Thursday, Murray talked about an increasingly stable, wealthy upper class that institutionalizes its power at the expense of ordinary Americans, concerns similar to those expressed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other progressives we idolize.
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Ford needs Adams to simultaneously embrace her girl next door image (in flashbacks to her marriage) and also lean into overt melodrama as a rich, brittle woman surrounded by privilege and the trappings of upper class existence.
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So much of the existential angst upper-class women felt was made possible by all those other women—the working-class ones who had no choice but to spend their lives in servitude, either domestic or industrial.
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But this law effectively pushes most Tanzanians to the margins of cyberspace, where they can neither speak nor create, while the majority of conversation about and in Tanzania risks becoming an echo chamber for the upper class.
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Instead, I chose to believe the audience was more enthused about the prospect of sending a million people (the threshold for a sustainable Martian society, according to Musk) from the upper class to an entirely different planet.
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Cases in which young, attractive white women from middle- or upper-class households go missing tend to get much more media attention than instances where women of color disappear — especially if they are from low-income families.
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Authorities broke up the event within minutes, but the rallly still managed to have lasting effects on the push to get dos Santos out of power — particularly in galvanizing support from middle and upper class, young Angolans.
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Their pope was Renzo Mongiardino, the scholarly, upper-class Genoan whose wild painterly vision liberated them throughout the 1970s and 183s and continues to resonate deeply with both minimalists and maximalists in the design and fashion worlds.
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VandeHei's piece was deservedly mocked on political Twitter, but his impatience with the two-party system as we know it is shared across the country's upper class, from Silicon Valley to the (ahem, Hamiltonian) world of finance.
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" In a November CNBC interview, the Treasury secretary declared that "any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
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I've seen makeshift topes materialize in upper-class neighborhoods from one day to the next, and I've seen topes that were built, I'm convinced, just to make drivers slow down for vendors who sell candy and water.
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It's worth worrying about the country's future under a tax regime that will skyrocket inequality, poke holes in the health care system, and re-engineer the economy so it works even more disproportionately for the upper class.
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On my first business class flight from DC to London, I slept like a baby for six hours in Virgin Atlantic's upper class, which is priced like business class but has amenities somewhere between business and first.
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I mean, Uber valet — like we have all of these things already that are catering to those growing upper class of young people who basically are infantilized and just still want to feel like they're in college.
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I do not mean "lost" in the upper-class aspirational sense of being on a journey of self-discovery, but lost in the very physical sense of not knowing who we were and where we came from.
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In Europe as in the United States, recent trends in culture and economics have elevated an educated upper class while separating it, geographically and ideologically and in every other way, from a declining and fragmenting working class.
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In Lind's account, Caldwell's story about the advance of social liberalism through bureaucratic and judicial power is just a subsidiary of the more important story, the post-1970s consolidation of economic power by a "managerial" upper class.
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Clerics tend not to read English, or to care much about the opinions of upper-class intellectuals; politicians are largely concerned with the vastly greater numbers of people who read primarily Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, or Balochi.
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Middle- and upper-class parents who'd gone to public schools and spent evenings playing kickball in the neighborhood began elbowing their toddlers into fast-track preschools and spending evenings monitoring their homework and chauffeuring them to activities.
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Or, you can look at it the other way and you can say that this is an attempt to inject spontaneity and a more direct relation to physicality into a hide bound, bourgeois, white upper-class culture.
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Lennie is a '60s radical who believes that political positions are useless without action, and she wants to tear down the corrupt system, the one that gives Sidney his hot fudge machines and other upper-class comforts.
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The salsa-loving baseball fan has animated the opposition's upper-class base and won over many working-class Venezuelans fed up with the country's hyperinflationary economic collapse, who have taken to the streets demanding Maduro step down.
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We're well accustomed to images of plucky factory workers and well-scrubbed nurses, but the contributions of middle and upper class women who constituted the bulk of the UK's female scientific community are a far more esoteric subject.
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This eagerness to critique the upper-class liberal mindset––a perspective handily summed up in the essay "The Contemporary Conformist" by Carles of Hipster Runoff (RIP HRO)––is part of what makes Tillman's new music feel so vital.
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She's the first black woman to lead a Dior campaign, an institution that has historically targeted upper-class white women, while also leading a line with Puma (Fenty x Puma), and an all-denim collection with Manolo Blahnik.
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J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy admonishes the white working class that encourages "reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible" — yet he also has words for the upper-class elites and the aspirational (and diminishing) upper middle class.
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"I think that literacy was confined to elites, basically scribes, high military officials, and priests," Rollston said, adding that by the late First Temple Period, it's possible reading and writing had spread to more of this upper class.
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Through various changes of ownership, it never lost its focus on the middle and upper-class South African market, despite the economy's failure to recover fully from a deep recession in 2009 sparked by the global financial crisis.
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As the chart shows, a single person needs to earn a minimum of $1.83,126 to qualify as upper class, while a household of five needs to earn $161,277: Others find the idea of richness more difficult to define.
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It is, however, still very much alive in the U.S. And that matters a great deal, because access to elite universities is one of the primary ways the upper-middle class and upper class pass on their advantages.
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According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Ryan's "Better Way" budget would increase the wealth of America's extreme upper class while prohibiting new funds for the Affordable Care Act and expanding work requirements for welfare recipients.
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There's no evidence Americans would have been more trusting of their upper-class cousins had those elites hewn more closely to WASP values—the problem was that so many elites turned out to be corrupt, incompetent, or both.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. gives a restrained, conflicted performance as Simpson, alternating between the beloved figure of his upper-class Brentwood community and a man prone to rages, someone who very well seems capable of killing his ex-wife.
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With less graciousness than I'd hoped to display, I ask if there's a reason why stories about the bizarre, violent deaths of young, good-looking, middle- to upper-class white girls help people mourn better than other stories.
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College admissions mania, in which many middle- and upper-class students must navigate what Ms. Simmons calls a "'Hunger Games'-like mentality" where the preparation starts early, the treadmill never stops and the stakes can feel impossibly high.
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"Zombi Child," an odd, elusive new movie from the French director Bonello ("Nocturama"), centers on a group of upper-class schoolgirls, one of whom makes the mistake of exploiting the ostensible magical traditions of a new Haitian classmate.
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An upper-class woman would have been proud to hobble on her "flowerpot-sole shoes"—embroidered slippers on tall pedestals—and Guo pays homage to them in vertiginous chopines that are lashed to the ankles with satin ribbons.
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But in the case of Agreus, given the grounded nature of his dilemma — a minority who's moved into an upper-class neighborhood — we didn't want to put that problem in a white guy's mouth, to put it bluntly.
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And Mr. Mnuchin left some experts dumbfounded after suggesting that "there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class" — a promise that appears to be at odds with plans presented by Mr. Trump and House Republicans.
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This happened in Chile, in the late forties, in an upper-class, narrow-minded, conservative, Catholic, and patriarchal environment, where girls like me were trained from early on for their role as future wives, mothers and proper ladies.
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Meanwhile new business tax credits would encourage regional diversification, while the state and local tax deduction would be capped, making it more expensive for the upper class to live in and around high-cost, high-tax metropolitan areas.
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"Any reductions we have in upper income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Mr. Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday morning.
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A brutal street brawl between lower- and upper-class boys is awkwardly scored to swelling, melodic strings, reminiscent of fussy exports like "Cinema Paradiso" rather than more thematically appropriate neorealist greats such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica.
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For the first time, the affluent upper-class people who paid for the pleasure of living along the well-manicured ridgelines overlooking the Kanawha River and adjacent Charleston skyline were feeling the burn of being a mountaintop removal community.
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In a CNBC interview in November, the then-Treasury secretary nominee surprised Wall Street by saying, "there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class" because cuts will be offset by closing loopholes that help the rich.
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At best, sex worker organizations with middle-to-upper-class members do street outreach, passing out literature, needles, condoms, and other harm-reduction materials, but they do not view hard-drug-using street sex workers as fellow movement participants.
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Ms. Warren has delighted in taunting them with a customized tax-bill calculator on her website, infusing her stump speech with a faux-sympathetic "awwwwww" after telling voters about the very-upper-class opposition to her wealth tax proposal.
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If his tightfitting suiting was built on the razor-edge silhouette introduced by Hedi Slimane and other European designers in the early 2000s, Mr. Browne also drew heavily on American mythology — especially of a certain Northeastern, upper-class strain.
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The problem has been to think of Sanders as belonging to a line that includes Bill Bradley, Howard Dean, and Barack Obama — insurgent Democratic candidates who won elite and upper-class voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, Karp said.
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In this four-part limited series, based on a biography by her great-great-granddaughter, A'Leila Bundles, Octavia Spencer stars as Walker, who naturally faced racial obstacles to the upper class, on top of hostile competitors in the field.
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