Word: upper
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...slowness, ineptitude, and inefficiency; in themselves, these criticisms are proof Westerners do not understand Bangladesh's government. The point of the government, as has been the point of government in South Asia for at least a thousand years, is to enrich government officials and strengthen the power of the upper castes over the lower, and at this the government is remarkably adroit, efficient, and swift. There are very few construction projects, for example, from which officials fail to achieve their target of bribes, very few internal disturbances from which the peasants gain anything but lip sympathy from the government, very...
TIME has obtained a copy of a 34-page document bearing the careful editing marks of Moore, who sought to portray herself in the best possible light. At one point, where she apologizes for her conventional upbringing, she inserted the words "upper middle class" to describe her social status. Moore also had second thoughts and crossed out some of the most revealing passages from her first version. In the text that follows, one portion that she deleted is enclosed in brackets. Since Moore nurtured the vain hope that the radicals would read her story and readmit her to their ranks...
...long time in this country for the need for qualitative change and had devoted a great deal of my life to working in ways that I thought would bring about such qualitative change. I went through many of the things that a lot of middle-class or upper-class people do or particularly women. We have kind of more time and more freedom and in a male chauvinist world, I don't think people pay a great deal of attention, or didn't, as to what we did and nobody took it terribly seriously. I had worked very...
hile living in Cincinnati, Grathwohl was recruited after a chance meeting with two Weatherpeople. He was just the type of person that the organization, which was overloaded with upper middle class members, wanted to recruit. His background was working class, and the recruiters wrongly believed that he had become a munitions expert during four years in the Army...
Brugioni had no chance, however, on Bullard's goal at 27:24 of the second. Last season's top scorer rocketed a shot that Brugioni barely saw into the upper right corner from about 25 yards...