Word: upper
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Most citizens of the Santiago I visited had never been to the other part of the city, the barrios. The government tells them, and it is probably true, that it is dangerous for them to cross the line from the upper to the lower part of town. It is dangerous because the people of the barrios are desperate...
...social stratification in Santiago is reminiscent of apartheid in South Africa. The upper city of neat shops and bright ads is predominantly populated with people of European descent, the lower city with a more indigenous population. The boundaries are not enforced by any legal code, but their effect is just as pronounced...
...left office), has become virtually a symbol of eternal youth. Unlike many who reach his age and peer back into the past, Reagan is still taking a bead on what lies ahead. Just as Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congresses of the 1960s and '70s sought to stretch the upper limits of America's willingness to pay for an expanded Government role in the nation's domestic life, Reagan seeks to test the lower limits of that willingness. By tilting gain at the ramparts of Big Government as he has done so often in the past, he hopes to make...
...fact, choice has nothing to do with the situation; for many women necessity dictates that they work. The same is true of abortion. Being "pro-choice" does not imply that options, choices and consequently morality are all that is involved in the issue of abortion. Some upper-class women may have a choice. Many women do not: those who can't afford it; those who have little hope or opportunity and thus no reasons pulling them one way or another; those who are raped...
...both the response rate and the nature of the response cannot be overemphasized. The council's referendum is proof. Its results are immensely uncertain, with a large bias favoring those who want the council involved. While 59 (the percentage of "Yes" votes on question two) is approximately the upper bound on the percent of undergraduates who want the council to support divestment, the lower bound is a mere 26.5 percent (100 percent minus 71 percent minus the 2.5 percent who "voted" "No" on question two equals 26.5 percent). The lower bound is probably closer to reality. Indeed, while as many...