It's been clear since the 1970s that the class system was becoming more inflexible.
On the soldier side, deepening the class system and customization became important.
Interestingly, even as Thatcher was working to open things up and making the British class system more like America's, the US class system started becoming more and more rigid.
The theme for this time is the class system.
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If the indignant depictions of the class system in so many Titanic dramas coexist uneasily with their adoring depictions of upper-crust privilege, that, too, is part of the appeal: it allows us to demonstrate our liberalism even as we indulge our consumerism.
Casually, the movie chronicles the end of the rigid British class system and the liberation of the working class through popular entertainment.
Being content with your station is, of course, antithetical to the American class system, which presents itself, with some justification, as a meritocracy.
Many critics praised its style and tone, and its submerged critique of the French class system, while others complained that, while nothing happened very prettily, nothing happened.
Sometimes they carry this to ridiculous lengths: I remember being addressed on the subject of the rigidity of the British class system by very rich men over lunch in a grandiose club in one of America's greatest cities.
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Unfortunately the whole point of financial regulatory reform was to improve access to credit for the middle class and to fix the banking system so the economy can rebound.
The Kremlin tried to manage the discontent, backing a plan by the billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov to revive a pro-business political party that would help to keep the middle class within the bounds of the system in the December elections.
The sound is reproduced either by the sound system of the S-Class or by Sennheiser Noise Gard headphones, which filter out any unwanted ambient noise for unparalleled listening pleasure.
The assumption was that England's class system would prove to be the main determinant of their future.
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Two iPads in the rear compartment not only play movies, music and Internet content, they also control all functions of the S-Class COMAND system.
You may be clever enough to manipulate the system or game the system as people like Romney and his financial class have done or maybe you earned it the old fashioned by working harder to develop a innovative technology that radically changed and further evolved our modern lives.
Inflation destroys the middle class, the social equivalent of a levee system, and then the floods come.
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The Navy built two classes of warships around the Aegis combat system, beginning with the Ticonderoga class of cruisers in the 1980s and then the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers in the 1990s.
So one way to strengthen the middle class in America is to reform the immigration system so that there is no longer a massive underground economy that exploits a cheap source of labor while depressing wages for everybody else.
If we want to grow our economy and strengthen the middle class, we need an immigration system built for the 21st century.
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Business has less riding on this case than it did before 2005, when Congress passed the Class Action Fairness Act making it much easier to pull class actions out of state court into the federal system.
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In addition, recent federal court rulings limited damage settlements in the case, relegating plaintiffs to class-action remedies in the federal court system rather than by jury in the state courts.
Researchers believe these new antibodies promote the production of a mysterious class of immune system cells called regulatory T cells that act as peacekeepers to ensure the rest of the immune system's soldiers remain under control.
To the delight of his business supporters, the administration has passed far-reaching reforms of the bankruptcy system and of class-action lawsuits.
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The Maya also developed social class system which was a well-ordered and carried on trade throughout a network of cities that went as far south as Panama and as far north as Central Mexico.
The UK, she said, had taken the lead internationally in developing early warning systems to detect harmful new substances, with drugs able to be banned days after identification under the system of temporary class drug orders.
So if we're truly committed to strengthening our middle class and providing more ladders of opportunity to those who are willing to work hard to make it into the middle class, we've got to fix the system.
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Our prosperity in the 20th century was fueled by an education system that helped grow the middle class and unleash the talents of our people more fully and widely than at any time in our history.
The first two First Class coaches also part, causing the automatic braking system to kick in.
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