Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million bikes were donated by the Chinese, decades ago). The army truck (2) is the constant (though relatively sedate and casual, we'd say) military presence. We are the tourists (3), perhaps the future, our dollars feeding into Cuba's increasingly dominant second economy, largely inaccessible to Cuba's proletariat; and the horseback farmer (4) represents, of course, the country's rural backbone. All caught, for one split second, on a single linear plane...
...Sterling Darling's dorm room might have been ransacked by proletariat rebels who whisked away all remnants of popular culture. The only decorations left in his Currier House single are antique desk ornaments, an English history book, and some pictures. One of them is "a bunch of lawyers, or something" he says. There is also a Texas flag. Sterling, dressed in a button-down shirt tucked always into neatly-pressed khakis, sat under the flag and answered FM's nervous-laughter-inducing questions about haircuts, Colt .45 and the beef MexiMelt...
...have to conduct a search to find a less connected bunch of Harvard," Somerby says. "Tommy Lee Jones came from a working-class background.... By Harvard standards, [Gore] was living with the complete proletariat...
Engineers like Kaushik, 39, once regarded as the Valley's geeky proletariat, are in such high demand that many of them shrewdly migrate from one start-up to the next, pulling in six-figure salaries and collecting bushels of potentially lucrative stock options. Kaushik should be rich by now, but thanks to a string of bad luck and bad decisions, he is not. He's worked for seven high-tech companies in 10 years. His first employer was bought by another firm shortly after he was hired. He joined another company in 1992 before it went public...
MONARCH BUTTERFLY Genetically altered corn may be lethal to the monarch butterfly. Proletariat butterflies, unite...