Word: upper-class
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Daniel grew up in the middle-class London suburb of Greenwich. Home life was akin to A Room with a View; street life was My Beautiful Laundrette, a jumble of good times and hard prejudices. "In my case," he says in his gently urgent, upper-class voice, "they could have chosen any one of a number of insults, since I was Irish and Jewish, and from a different class to most of the kids. They knew that because of my voice. But children are very adaptable. They're great performers: they perform for their parents all the time, to find...
...code, notes the report, grants middle- and upper-class Americans more in housing subsidies than poor people get, at a cost of $41 billion last year -- 85% of which went to the most affluent taxpayers. But the report makes no proposal for changing the mortgage-interest tax deduction...
...while. The last time Updike cut loose abroad was about 15 years ago, when he used an African setting for The Coup. Now he retells the Tristan and Isolde legend as a love story about a black teenage mugger from the hillside slums of Rio and an upper-class white girl with a hunger for forbidden experience...
Kain isn't quite sure why so many students are coming in. But she says that upper-class students and employers are emphasizing the importance of summer experience when they speak to first-years and sophomores...
Gonzales says, however, that the addition oftrained mediators would be helpful for conflictsin the upper-class houses. She also says she hopesthe race relations tutors will still be animportant part of dealing with issues of raceamong students...