Word: uppers
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Meanwhile, the upper samurai class, now that Japan was politically unified, had less butchery to do and more time to spend on matters of high culture, especially the observance of form in such areas as calligraphy, the "way" of tea and the artifacts that were tied into it, ceremonial dress, and brush painting linked to the imported cult of Zen Buddhism. Some of the most memorable samurai objects in this show could not have had much military use; they are kawari kabuto, spectacular parade helmets--the ancestors of Darth Vader's mask--worn to impress the living daylights...
...jargon. New businesses, higher productivity and the like are the cures for the kinks in the system Sen so repetitively pledges allegiance to. I hope I am not the first to inform Sen that in reality trickle-down provides just that: a trickle. The unfathomable abundance of wealth the upper class and the educated "elite" monger through the noble pursuit of investment banking is directly proportional to the meager scraps for the rest of us at the bottom. WILLIAM F. AUSTIN...
...Wildcats struck first, 6:27 into the game, when junior forward Carisa Zaban's shot trickled past Crimson goaltender Crystal Springer after Springer had stopped the puck initially. That surprising turn of events gave UNH the upper hand for the rest of the period and the Wildcats headed into the first intermission with momentum and the lead...
Until recently, women were all but excluded from the upper reaches of corporate America. Women superlative enough to make their mark expended their energies mostly in social causes or education. Those who somehow managed to build businesses or transform companies were mainly the wives, the widows, the daughters or the partners of hugely successful...
According to Hutchison, tax laws punishcitizens in the upper tax brackets...