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  • n  the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
  • n  the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group
  • n  forming or depositing in layers
  • n  a layered configuration
  • n  the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination

  • Insert theory about the American lottery mentality and stratification of wealth here.
  • The result has already been a quasi-privatization of some of the nation's top research institutions and the economic stratification of their student bodies.
  • And in her graduate-level class on obscenity, media-studies professor Laura Kipnis of Northwestern University examines how publications like Hustler can define class stratification .
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  • Brian Roberts in Home Media Magazine
    If you take the cost of your video subscription and divide it by 30 days, it's pretty affordable entertainment,Roberts said. "There may be some stratification going on, but net for Comcast we grew our revenue per customer 6%. That's a...
  • Paddy Croft in Hedgeworld (registration)
    I think ultimately there will be some stratification in valuation and Canadian banks should do well,Ms. Croft said.
  • Spencer Wells in BBC News
    It seems to have come in from Europe and is found mostly in the Christian population,said Dr Spencer Wells, director of the Genographic Project. "This is odd because typically we don't see this sort of stratification by religion when we...

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