"I will endeavour to maintain the same high standard he has set, " she said.
As a rule of thumb, economists reckon that a family with one child needs 30% more income than a childless couple to maintain the same living standard.
What's more, while a spouse will be supported to the extent required to maintain the marital lifestyle (or marital standard of living--MSOL), kids will be entitled to receive support commensurate with a parent's ever-increasing ability to pay.
In this case, however, the reality is that without jobs America will not be able to maintain a reasonable standard of living or generate the taxes to secure our national security.
In order for his statistical estimates to be valid, he has to assume that a poor couple which decides to have a child needs the same proportionate increase in spending to maintain its living standard as a rich couple.
In a string of doomed attempts to maintain their standard of living, the islanders have tried everything from money-laundering to bankrolling an appalling London musical about Leonardo da Vinci's love-life.
Starting with Greece and likely to spread, markets are starting to question whether governments can maintain the size and standard of their public sector, Jennings told the audience of about 100 Renaissance clients who had gathered at the Mandarin Hotel in tony Knightsbridge to hear the investment case for Africa.
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In 1931, as the Austrian bank Creditanstalt collapsed, pulling down the banks of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, a run on the German currency forced it off the Gold Standard in May, then the British Labour government struggled to maintain its currency peg - imposing austerity onto its own voters as the price.
Volkswagen said it strives to maintain a global standard for body strength, putting the same number of welds on the same models regardless of where they're produced, and using high-strength steel in Brazilian cars.
Unless we come up with long-term solutions to grow the American economy, create more jobs and maintain our standard of living, we run the risk of a societal meltdown.
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So in order to maintain a credible currency which is the picture definition of a gold standard, governments would necessarily avoid major deficits.
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These organizations help to maintain standard terminology for chemistry and physics, and also recognize the discoveries of chemical elements.
These households will arrive at retirement with insufficient wealth to maintain the average level of consumption enjoyed over their working life, let alone the increased standard of living enjoyed after the children leave.
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And that audience gets what it wants within the first 10 minutes of Nancy Meyers' blithe, self-regarding, fitfully charming paean to the fairy-tale luck of middle-aged women wealthy enough to maintain a delightful standard of living after a divorce.
The amount of work we choose to undertake is flexible, and controlling scope allows us to maintain an acceptable standard in relation to time, cost, and quality.
NCs when it announced the Windows Terminal standard: this makes it easier to make cheap (and easy-to-maintain) desktop machines that simply display Windows software which is actually running on a central computer (much as mainframe terminals do).
No matter: the elderly, and many of the young, have been convinced that they have a right to Social Security payments high enough to maintain a comfortable standard of living despite old age, widowhood or disability, and this right is every bit as inalienable as the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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