In 2009, the size of the middle class in the US was 338M the size of the middle class in the Asia Pacific was 525M.
Because of the size of the class, jury selection is already proving difficult.
The plaintiffs say the size of the class, while large, results from Wal-Mart's status as the nation's largest corporate employer.
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The company has protested the size of the class action, which it called "historic" in scope, saying it would be too onerous to litigate.
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Certainly, if 750, 000 Americans lose their jobs, that could have an effect on the size of the middle class.
Among other things, this anticipated payday is fueled primarily by ever-increasing population growth and an unprecedented explosion in the size of the middle class.
The restaurant is in a northern Beijing suburb popular with young executives, representative of China's surging wealth and the size of its business class.
Within a generation, the middle class in China will be roughly four times the size of the American middle class population, according to the UN Population Division and Goldman Sachs.
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Some of the classes were of around 200 in size with only two trainers accommodating the training for a class of this size.
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At Vauvert Primary School, two reception classes will be run a fraction below its maximum class size of 25 with 49 pupils in total.
Secondly there is the credit risk issue attached to the mushrooming of wealth-management products, an asset class of uncertain size and quality which banks created in order to attract deposits with higher rates of return.
Below the flashy corporate logo is information about the registration of the equity security, including ticker symbol, class of offering, size of the offering and expected price.
The vessels, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, will be the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy, nearly three times the size of the current Invincible-class carriers.
The University of Phoenix views its admissions approach as being inclusive, arguing that bricks-and-mortar universities exert a form of elitism by using grades and standardised testing as a way of restricting class size, whereas the distance-learning university can offer places to a wider student body whose priority is simply to move ahead.
The state pre-schools, however, fall short of set standards for class size and staff-to-pupil ratios.
For decades, research has confirmed that the big factor in determining how much students learn is not class size or the extent of standardized testing but the quality of their teachers.
Now, with these teachers -- listen, with these teachers, we will actually be able to reduce class size in the first, second and third grades to an average of 18 students a class all across America.
Does class size matter in the amount of learning students do?
She called the government figures "misleading, " noting that typically 30% to 50% of the class borrows and class size is small, typically 65 to 90 students, meaning year-to-year figures can turn on the actions of a handful of students.
Clinton also shelved his campaign commitment to deliver a middle class tax cut upon learning the size of the deficit.
As frequent flyers know, the payoff for dealing with airport security (even then) and regularly delayed flights was and is the possibility of an upgrade to first class with seats that are actually meant to house a human body of normal size.
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Over the next decade or so a new global middle class will emerge, with estimates of its size varying from 1.2 billion to 4 billion people.
Wharton's latest executive class there enrolled 102 students, about double the size of the first cohort.
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Even in the hardest-hit economies such as Spain, Ireland, or Portugal, groups of healthy small- and medium-size businesses and middle-class households exist that constitute good risks.
After years of worrying about issues like school funding levels, class size, and curriculum design, many reformers have come to the conclusion that nothing matters more than finding people with the potential to be great teachers.
Industry analysts predict that sales of heavy duty trucks will increase by 14 percent this year, but year-to-date sales of 58, 846 Class 8 trucks, the largest size category, are still significantly below the 162, 545 sold in the first seven months of record-setting 2006.
Minsheng has drawn up plans for a new class of river boat that more than doubles the current size of 800-1, 000 tonnes, whilst raising the speed from 18kph to 22kph.
Class size is limited to four participants and includes a tasting, of course.
But he is leading a research team that plans to visit dozens of schools in New York City and around the state to investigate class size, curriculum, safety and other issues.
Also, online institutions are much more strict about limiting class size than traditional schools, usually setting a maximum of 20 to 25 per section.
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