Word: stratum
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...thing that offended me most was the great extravagance at a time when we're supposed to be cutting the budget and showing restraint on all unnecessary frills." Robert Michel, the new Republican minority leader in the House, complained: "At these prices, only those of a certain economic stratum can attend...
...wilderness to the north. The leaders of these trekboers (wandering farmers) founded two independent republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. No one but the native blacks would have cared had not a rich diamond pipe been found at Kimberley in the Orange Free State and an immense stratum of gold at Witwatersrand ("the Rand") in the Transvaal. As largely British "Outlanders" poured into the Rand to mine the gold, Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes plotted an uprising against Transvaal President Paul Kruger. But a premature raid tipped Rhodes' hand, and the Boers armed...
...wall poster condemned China as a place where "no one is allowed to think, no one is allowed to do research, and no one is allowed to ask a single why on any question." Instead of a true democracy, the wall poster charged, a dictatorship by a "privileged stratum" of party cadres maintained its own power by demanding unquestioned loyalty. "We cannot forget," the document said, "the grotesque dance of loyalty, the uninterrupted rituals of loyalty-the morning prayers, the evening confessionals, the meetings, the assemblies ... all of it lacquered over with a thick religious sauce giving off a strong...
Unable to form connections with street people, Travis's attentions turn to Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign worker for Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris). This, Scorsese implies, is the other, the dominant stratum of society. Betsy is confident, manipulative, and vapid--like the low-lifers, she registers no emotions, but unlike them, she is not motivated by fear. Rather, it is her job to calculate the effect stimuli will have on "the electorate" and to organize the stimuli in a way that will best promote her product. "After a while, everyone becomes his job," warns the Wizard, and Betsy has clearly...
Huntington attributes this decline in the "governability of democracy" to a "stratum of value-oriented intellectuals who often devote themselves to the derogation of leadership, the challenging of authority, and the delegitimation of established institutions." Huntington concludes that in an age of widespread education and pervasive mass media, this "challenge to democratic government is, potentially at least, as serious as those posed in the past by aristocratic cliques, fascist movements, and Communist parties...