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status seeker

Someone who uses conniving, self-serving, or manipulative tactics in order to rise to higher socioeconomic levels. The film has chosen to depict the brilliant young businesswoman as some kind of status seeker who used her friends and connections in order to advance her own career and place in society.
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status seeker

Someone who aspires to a higher socioeconomic level. Upward mobility have always been an aspect of American society, but it took sociologist Vance Packard's 1959 book The Status Seekers to give a name to people who strove to impress by acquiring and flaunting fashionable and expensive items and social cachet. Status seekers—the derogatory epithet quickly gained popularity—not only tried to keep up with the Jones, they wanted to leave the Jones behind.
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Roughly 100 asylum seekers marched the Nicosia streets to reach the Nicosia district labour office, the interior ministry, EU House, and the labour ministry.
The figures mean the number of asylum seekers receiving support last year was a 16% rise from the year before - when 1,868 people were being supported.
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Councillors have put on hold plans to move asylum seekers into a picturesque part of North Yorkshire amid concerns over terrorism, cost and the lack of a mosque.
Job seekers have largely positive perceptions of future economic conditions.
The interior minister explained that the relocation process depended on Latvia's capacity to provide asylum seekers with accommodations and social inclusion.
Middlesbrough topped the list with one asylum seeker per 167 residents, with Glasgow and Rochdale following as numbers two and three in the list.
A Home Office report issued alongside the figures, which were published last week, said that although the number has risen since 2012, it is "considerably below" that for the end of 2003, when there were 80,123 asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support.
Jannat Gul an Afghan asylum seeker who came Norway after crossing Greece, said, "he thought that he has escaped from the hell but now he observes that he has entered from one room of hell to another".
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