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He could have galvanised the great majority that have been cheated by an overweening super-class but thought it electorally necessary to mimic the Tory myth of the undifferentiated big-tent "middle".
Money busts the convenient myth that social class is dead | Polly Toynbee 2011
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In good times and bad, the rewards at the top keep rolling, far outstripping any increase in prosperity for the rest of society and deepening the gulf between a tiny super-class of executives and the rest of humanity.
Invasion of the booty snatchers: how greed is spreading out from the City 2010
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Wedel cites retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey as one example of this new international super-class -- a member of the shadow elite that serves in government posts, moves to the private sector, goes on TV, and collects a healthy paycheck from companies that benefit when the power broker's advice is taken.
Arianna Huffington: The First HuffPost Book Club Pick of 2010: Shadow Elite by Janine Wedel 2010
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I am not convinced, though, that it is a good idea to name the super-class "fantasy", because that might cause confusion.
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I've tried reading the story as a satire on the idea of a super-class, or read it somehow as undermining the idea of selective breeding for intelligence, but I just haven't yet been able to convince myself that I'm not performing some violence against the text that way.
Predicting Morons 2007
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The 2 super-class ships attacking the southern half of the energy dome restricted themselves to the use of thermal impulse-guns.
Duel Under the Double Sun Scheer, Karl 1977
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In a concerted thunder of impulse engines, heavy and super-class units of the Solar Fleet were lifting up from Terrania's giant spaceport and heading into space.
Caller from Eternity Brand, Kurt 1976
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The Regent had launched 30,000 ships of the heavy and super-class types just to pull the Imperator, Gonozal VIII, out of a very tight scrape. 30,000 ships-it was too much to grasp all at once!
Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976
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Crimes of the NWO super-class exposed: Invisible Empire TRAILER #2
Prison Planet.com admin 2010
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The rapid proliferation of technology throughout American society is creating a super-class of young kids who are literally hard-wired into technology from the time they leave their cribs.
Endless Innovation 2010
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