The Tissot "High T" smart watch, retailing at over $700, is aimed at status-conscious businessmen, not hip youngsters.
The current taste for mini-me fashions seems to be only marginally related to an earlier fad, when Baby Dior jumpers and booties emblazoned with Gucci double-G's were aimed at status-seeking parents and their style-obsessed offspring.
The presidemcy's Temple Entry Authorization Act (1939) and its Temple Entry Proclamation (1936) of Travancore were aimed at elevating the status of Dalit and other low castes to a position equal to that of high-caste Hindus.
Phase III objectives are consolidation of reform and stabilization of Palestinian institutions, sustained, effective Palestinian security performance, and Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at a permanent status agreement in 2005.
Though cruelly aimed at Heath's status anxieties, the Eye's gibe was rooted in his stint negotiating food prices in Brussels.
But under a law introduced in the early 1990s, aimed at improving their status and career prospects, teachers are now virtually immovable while their pay is mainly based on length of service rather than performance.
They refuse to discuss policies aimed at resolving the status of the 11m-odd illegal immigrants already in the country until they deem the border secure.Mr Obama himself has succumbed to this mindset to a great extent.
The subsidy is all the more objectionable when so much of it seems to go into shareholders' and executives' pockets and on a huge, and so far effective, lobbying effort aimed at preserving its status.
Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America, which represents 11,000 movie and television writers, have been seeking increases in several types of residuals, the fees paid for subsequent use of a writer's work after its initial broadcast or theatrical run, as well as concessions aimed at improving the status and power of film writers.
Fixes to its predecessor aimed at maintaining its status as the best $100 VR headset around.
This study aimed at determining the status of pit latrines (design, construction, operation and maintenance) and its influence on latrine performance (filling, smell and insect nuisance).
