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Clegg said he wanted to end a culture in which individuals could get a foot in the door in firms and industries because of "who your father is", and which was dominated by the "sharp-elbowed middle classes".
More than 800 unpaid interns hired at arts and sports groups in two years
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Parents, just as sharp-elbowed as any in north London, were placing their children with relatives to sneak into a decent catchment area.
How the teachers of hope I met in the Congo were brutally killed
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The president is a sharp-elbowed basketball player himself with both academic and athletic cred.
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The past decade has seen something remarkable happen: sharp-elbowed bankers and gullible politicians in America and Britain have turned basic foodstuffs into something to bet on.
Bankers and politicians have turned food into a betting game | Aditya Chakrabortty
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In Payne's hands, Election transcended its roots as the sharply observed tale of a high-school president contest, to become an allegoryfor American politics, in which the sharp-elbowed battle the stupid andmanipulated.
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The blustering, sharp-elbowed chairman, Charles Bluhdorn, had no experience in the movie business.
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The cracks in Cisco's switching business are being driven by increased price and technology competition from sharp-elbowed rivals such as H-P and Juniper Networks Inc. Juniper has expanded its share of the network-switching market to around 2.3% from nothing in early 2008, according to Dell'Oro.
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Investment banking can be a sharp-elbowed business, where allegiances and assignments are routinely coveted and then dropped for better opportunities.
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This charming dollop of a book is filled with amusing details about family dynamics, Chinese traditions and a neighborhood so lively and sharp-elbowed that people learned to protect their ribs while they shopped.
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Clegg will say: For too long, internships have been the almost exclusive preserve of the sharp-elbowed and the well-connected.
Nick Clegg's social mobility scheme targets unpaid internships
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