In other words, epicurean eating is not restricted to the usual young, educated, and wealthy segments of the population.
With a new chairman, Andrew Gordon, who is in charge of West Coast operations for Goldman Sachs, the museum hopes to make inroads into wealthy segments of Los Angeles that have historically been stingy in contributing to art institutions.
"We've broadened the scope far beyond the wealthy segments.
Thus, there was no improvement in inequities in these indicators and the improvement in the population averages was primarily due to marked improvements in the rates for the relatively wealthy segments of the population.
Those cuts have primarily benefited the wealthiest segment of the population.
Can you still make plays about working-class struggles when your paying audience is made up of a much wealthier segment of society?
Mr. McCain is correct when he says that Mr. Obama intends to increase the maximum tax rate on capital gains, the bulk of which fall on the wealthiest segment of the population, and that he would be less generous in offering breaks on the estate tax.
The institutions that are responsible for exposing the public to art are dependent on the minuscule but wealthiest segment of society for support, a fact that has inescapably has reduced art to a reflection of their superficial values -- conformity, fashion, wealth, status and power.
In Brazil, the mostly white upper-middle class has felt threatened by the rise of a largely black lower-middle class whose income shot up faster than that of the wealthiest segment of society during more than a decade of leftist Workers Partyy rule starting in 2003.
As he and other baby boomers age, says Mr. Kerschner, who is 45, the attitudes of the largest, fastest-growing, wealthiest segment of the population have changed -- and those changes are affecting what boomers spend on everything from soft drinks to vacations.
With the launch of the world's most expensive iPhone in Brazil a few years ago, smartphones started off as a status symbol, accessible only to the nation's wealthiest segment, or "A" class.
