Shaken to the core, I returned to the school, where a grim quiet bound myself and the other parents together, the literally unspeakable news sealing our smiles while, at a lower strata, our happy, screaming children ran out of the building into our arms still frothed up by sparkling visions of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Smokestack industries did disappear; jobs came to be divided between a lower stratum of service workers and an upper stratum sitting in antiseptic bubbles playing with computers.
But further research has established that the graves lie in a lower stratum of sediment, and thus probably were dug sometime during the first dynasty, which extended from about 3000 B.C. to 2800.
There's a lower stratum of sexual dysfunction and fear at work, which is difficult, if not impossible to understand:: the ultimate meaning of the chaotic "Chinatown" of the title.
They often have segmented labour markets in which employees of key industries enjoy well-paid and consumerist lifestyles while a lower stratum of workers staffs less well-paid, more precarious, and less attractive positions within the urban economy.
Their rivals, the progresistas (progressives), were the heirs of the exaltados and represented a lower stratum of the middle class; the progresistas were prepared to use the discontent of the urban masses in order to bring pressure on the crown to give them office.
Of course arrogance is worse, but it never helps to declare that you occupy a lower stratum.
Mr. Hannah's new book is a strenuously pulpy series of vignettes from the lower strata of a small Mississippi town where fishing, drinking, fornicating and fighting are the chief activities.
In fact, the 1990s registered an extension to middle and lower strata of society and even a new comparative ambition, so that collective biography seems to have a fruitful prospect.
The skilled, English-speaking software professional is the celebrated face of India's middle class, but the real middle in the country lies in a much lower stratum, both in income and education.
Cardamom agroforestry includes the thinning of canopy trees to create only 50% shade and the complete clearance of the lower strata of a once natural forest.
