Anorexia, in which people have an intense fear of gaining weight and drastically restrict their food intake, cuts across ethnic and socioeconomic boundaries.

Q. It is said about domestic violence that these kinds of attitudes cross all socioeconomic boundaries.

These types of differentiations according to socioeconomic and racial boundaries were prevalent throughout the North Omaha area, as in other communities across the country.

"The disdain for these devices crosses all socioeconomic, ethnic and religious boundaries," Mr. Gennaro said.

And one thing we discovered was, this is an issue that has no socioeconomic boundaries.

The neighborhood boundaries have been laid out more-or-less rectangularly according to street maps, rather than following socioeconomic or natural boundaries.

Home schooling crosses school-district, socioeconomic, ethnic and racial boundaries.

"We're finding that large numbers of kids in the old cities have elevated lead levels, but it can cut across socioeconomic boundaries," Dr. Meyer added.

It kind of crosses socioeconomic boundaries, a magical place like Paris.

The gust of wind from the football player's butt blowing back the tennis player's hair seemed to cross socioeconomic boundaries.