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46 Query, was Re: SUV's (was "Re: mystery solved") -- rank: 527

At 08:54 PM 5/22/01 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote: >John Gulick wrote: > > > > average upper-middle class > >I would suppose that "upper-middle class" must rub elbows with "lower >upper class"? >Could someone please describe for me the "lower upper class" and their >relation to the "middle upper class"? > >Carrol ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Tue May 22 19:14:10 PDT 2001

47 Query, was Re: SUV's (was "Re: mystery solved") -- rank: 527

John Gulick wrote: > > average upper-middle class I would suppose that "upper-middle class" must rub elbows with "lower upper class"? Could someone please describe for me the "lower upper class" and their relation to the "middle upper class"? Carrol

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue May 22 18:54:30 PDT 2001

48 [lbo-talk] RE: New Yorker SUV article -- rank: 527

Joanna: > > I just read it last night and thought it was a great article. The New Yorker has been very > uneven and most disappointing for years. So, every year it's a struggle deciding whether to > renew or not. This year, this particular article decided me to renew. > I actually like ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jan 8 14:10:02 PST 2004

49 Fwd: regulation, consumption and politics (was Re: SUV's) -- rank: 527

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Nov 10 11:33:29 PST 2002

50 [lbo-talk] SUV registration! Background checks! Cool-down periods! -- rank: 527

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?issue=07-29-05&storyID=21955 (love these two quotes: 'Police quickly identified a suspect, in large part because the jeep s front bumper cover was left behind in the wreckage, complete with license plate.' and 'A store employee told acquaintances that customers had rushed ...

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Author:	jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Date:	Sat Jul 30 21:34:16 PDT 2005

51 [lbo-talk] gas price "tipping point": a little above current levels -- rank: 498

[I saw a pundit on CNBC last week who said that polls consistently show the point at which Americans say that high gas prices will cause them to drive less is always about a quarter above present levels. While this poll doesn't exactly confirm that, the results are in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 24 06:36:25 PDT 2007

52 Categories? (was Re: The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology....) -- rank: 498

... of the old saying "comparing apples and >> oranges." Categories like "SUV drivers" (to which Carrol >> objected) and categories like "women" & "gay ... and I have at >least as many reasons to group SUV drivers together as most >people do "gay men & lesbians" (which ... 20 word request of you asked little >else). > >I find SUV drivers to be, in general, more careless, arrogant, >thoughtless, and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 31 02:03:34 PDT 2001

53 [lbo-talk] LA Confidential -- rank: 467

<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-murder15aug15,1,2056068.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage>http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-murder15aug15,1,2056068.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage A homicide case takes a back seat to a theft ring Trial is delayed in a ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Aug 15 12:56:26 PDT 2007

54 [lbo-talk] What can be done? Just Keep Driving! -- rank: 467

... cellie, and otherwise show my obliviousness towards YOUR universe! oopsie! SUV backover deaths: What can be done? Drivers unaware of rear ... From Greg Hunter, CNN NEW YORK (CNN) - One thing many SUV buyers like about their vehicles is the increased visibility. They ... sight comes at a price that can be tragic. What SUV drivers can't see is what's close behind them ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Sat Nov 5 08:30:29 PST 2005

55 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Sales of SUVs Fall Sharply -- rank: 467

Sales of SUVs Fall Sharply Both New and Used Models Suffer as Drivers Seek Fuel-Efficient Options; Turning Away Trade-Ins By GINA CHON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 4, 2005 Rising gas prices and a shift to more fuel-efficient models sharply cut into sales of sport ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Oct 5 10:06:01 PDT 2005

56 [lbo-talk] Advertisings effects (was Death of Dean) -- rank: 467

... to distort peoples rational decisions making processes. As far as SUV's are concerned you believe that manufacturers identified the SUV as a great potential money maker that because of the ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Sat Feb 14 12:56:53 PST 2004

57 [lbo-talk] Peak Oil or Oil Bubble? -- rank: 467

... out of their way, and >> into debt, to own an SUV. Think pimpmobile in the ghetto. > > More tut-tut'ing of ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Thu Apr 14 20:01:12 PDT 2005

58 The Left, The Public, was Re: Ideology.... -- rank: 467

... 05-01, Carrol wrote: > > > > But maybe the expression of anti-SUV sentiment is really an attack on a > symptom of the ... b)are focused on a non-existent category. That is, SUV drivers do not constitute a unified category about which general ... religious inspiration or a crude sort of literary criticism, the SUV being considered a poetic image. Why of the infinite number ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri May 25 07:55:07 PDT 2001

59 celeb enviros -- rank: 467

... in ads for Lear's Enviromental Media Association (EMA) accusing SUV owners of supporting terrorism. But some of Paltrow's neighbors ... find her to be an odd choice for an anti-SUV poster girl. "She drives a Mercedes-Benz SUV," says a ti

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 13 08:51:04 PST 2003

60 [lbo-talk] O.C. freeway fatality an international case -- rank: 431

... left for Korea after a motorcyclist who hit his disabled SUV was killed. There's a warrant for his arrest. By ... with his band, but he didn't know a disabled SUV loomed ahead of him in the carpool lane. Within moments ... 24 hours later, the Hyundai executive who was driving the SUV had left for his native South Korea, according to investigators ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed May 23 10:05:39 PDT 2007