Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand, being affiliated with an institution that is reputedly elitist, exclusive, ultra-liberal and an integral part of the Eastern establishment could prevent a candidate from ingratiating himself with the masses...
...Voters want to know you're from their environment, that you're one of them and didn't go off to be an elitist," he explained...
...difference is ostensibly that the hierarchies in today's student groups, publications, government simulations, and such, unlike the elitist final club scene of Roosevelt's time, are based on merit. But anyone who has ever applied for a position and seen it go to a friend or roommate of the student making the decision knows this isn't true...
...House in 2000." When the returns roll in, on that Tuesday night still 15 months away, the pundits will chalk victory up to the issues. The winners will play along. Democrats, if they retake their old stronghold, will declare that America is tired of guns and elitist tax cuts and overarching HMOs. The Republicans, if they hang on, will claim a mandate to refund Americans their money and reclaim for them their values. What the new majority is least likely to fulminate about, at least with any sincerity, is the insidious presence of money in politics. They?ll know...
Claude Allegre, minister of education, is enacting changes to the high school regime, aimed at recognizing the needs of students of different talents and different socio-economic backgrounds in a system that has been one of the most elitist in the world. Historically both the government and the government-owned businesses were run by a small cadre of men who graduated from the elite Grandes Ecoles, survivors of the relentless winnowing that characterized French education since the days of Napoleon...