Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the Administration was feeling a bit more hopeful about the situation. Having avoided any sort of response that might have worked to the disadvantage of the hostages, the U.S. was increasingly counting on growing pressure from the international community and from Iran's own middle class to exert some influence on the religious leaders and the students. One goal of the American diplomatic strategy was to isolate Iran and make it appear as an irrational outlaw in world opinion. Iranian diplomats privately expressed their sense of embarrassment about the embassy seizure to their Arab colleagues...
...solve. The economy remains a shambles, with constant food shortages. The flight of the middle class continues, as evidenced by the numbers of people who are trying to secure visas to the U.S. and Western Europe...
Casto has no regrets about the way he's spent his four years at Harvard. In class and out, he's accomplished his main goal, "to make my college years the very best of my life." Now he needs only that elusive win over Yale to put the icing on the cake...
...lies deeper, however, than his bumpkin mannerisms or even his placid gentility. His ignorance serves as a shield against the violent onslaught of painful knowledge. In Da's world, where rosebush cuttings and fresh peaches take first priority, knowledge can only oppress. By reinforcing the suffering of the lower class, teaching them about a better way of life they can never have, this knowledge ultimately spurs Charlie to leave Ireland for London and middle class success as a writer. But Da remains blissful in his ignorance...
Accusing the Carter administration of bungling the nation's energy and inflation problems with too much government interference. Reagan told his Dorchester audience that the burden of these failures falls on the middle class...