Poorer students are more likely to drop out, and less likely to get into the poshest university courses.

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At one end White's, the poshest of London's gentlemen's clubs, is opening for the first Sunday many members can recall.

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Land Rover, one of the oldest and poshest SUV brands, boosted sales by more than 50% in 2011 in China.

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Dates can range from quiet interludes while lounging in Central Park all the way to glamorous, celeb-filled evenings at the poshest club in town.

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Would his royal finances be shaken by the expenses of the wedding of the year and keeping Lady Kate in the poshest of togs?

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Charterhouse, one of the poshest and oldest schools, has just built a new hall of separate study bedrooms for its girls, each with an en-suite shower-room.

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The smallest, at 2, 142 square feet, is the Kurata house, built in 1955 by Isoya Yoshida, the architect of the Kabukiza theater in Ginza, Tokyo's poshest district.

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We headed to Wild Honey, which appeared to be the poshest restaurant in town, and ordered dirty martinis with blue-cheese olives and a dozen local Pine Island oysters with pineapple mignonette.

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Even some of the least expensive rides on the road now afford stylishly cast interiors with top quality materials and sophisticated features that were until recently offered only in the poshest luxury models.

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