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Tisch, who has worked in city government for decades, also happens to be the Harvard-educated daughter of a billionaire who speaks the upper crust’s language.

Some people may be tempted to see online renewal as just another service tailor-made for the upper crust, because who else needs a passport for foreign travel?

The melts were buoyant and ascended back to the upper crust, trapping the heat-producing elements there in rocks like granite and allowing the lower crust to cool and harden.

His jabs at his predecessor took aim at the former president’s wealthy upbringing, his friendships with billionaires and his 2017 tax cuts that disproportionately benefited America’s upper crust.

Such a blasé response seems realistic: According to the same Guardian story from 2005, fancy dress parties with imperialist themes were popular with the British upper crust at the time, and Nazi costumes were commonplace.