Word: underclass
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...possible that the opposition could still try to stir things up in the provincial cities, especially in Mindanao. Because it's such a class-based thing, with the middle and upper classes backing Arroyo while the underclass supports Estrada, there is a real fear that if the poor come out on the streets again - and it really won't take much to get them there, particularly since they clearly sensed their power this week - that there could be widespread looting and chaos...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement is once again rearing its ugly head. The new president of Harvard is making his rounds. Some guy from South Korea just won the Boston Marathon. But a serious column demands a rigorous mindset, and I’ll leave these stories to my underclass comrades...
...placing its story in Harvard Square, it hopes to use the proximity of the “haves,” the resource-rich Harvard community, and the “have-nots,” Rodolfo, Mimi and their friends, to show how the leisure class exploits its underclass on many different levels...
...Prokhorov) and Schaunard, a musician (David Howse) are inhabitants of one of the busiest and most affluent parts of Boston yet, they have little employment opportunity as artists; their craft is created for and enjoyed only by the leisure class, which derives its leisure from the exploitation of the underclass...
...making its way into Do It Yourself Happy Homes. It had originally been the drug of choice for long-haul truck and bus drivers, but during the go-go '90s, it evolved into the working man's and woman's preferred intoxicant, gradually becoming more popular among Thailand's underclass than heroin and eventually replacing that opiate as the leading drug produced in the notorious Golden Triangle--the world's most prolific opium-producing region--where Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Laos come together. While methamphetamines had previously been sold either in powdered or crystalline form, new labs in Burma, northern...