This hearing was supposed to be about the technical issue of whether lower courts had erred by certifying such a big class action.
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Partners at Bernstein Litowitz, a big New York class action firm, spent less than 20 hours on the case, according to court reports.
There is a big constituency among middle class voters for the idea that the government should spend less on the poor and more on them.
Earlier this year, Congress passed a bill forcing most big class-action suits to go through the federal courts, thus preventing lawyers from shopping around for the most plaintiff-friendly local courts.
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They knew enough to understand how hard they could push without breaking things (the rate of return they demanded would soon ossify into a ritualized expectation of stable growth rates, a big enabler of the rise of a middle class that could basically withdraw from the risk frontier).
In between is a surprisingly thin and unhappy middle class, which poses a big social and economic challenge.
It was such a big game involving many top class players - and it says a lot about someone who can stand out in such company.
But the Navy has many other options for generating savings in its budget, and the Ford class is a big improvement over carriers designed before the information revolution began.
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We cannot have Congress leave for the holidays without a solution to an issue that will bring a hardship -- potentially a big hardship to middle-class families at the end of the year.
The struggles of middle-class families were a big problem long before the recession hit in 2007.
We know he has got a big boot and he is a class player, but I am sure we can move him around a bit.
Perhaps conflict may rear its head once more if the class action produces a big bundle of money, and the time comes to sort out who gets how much of it.
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Once or twice a decade the UK may well join big US missions in its capacity as a first-class military power.
Tunisia is a small country of fewer than 11m people with a fairly big and well-educated middle class.
With HDMI and VGA ports, students can present their reports to the class with a projector or big screen TV.
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Democrats accuse Republicans of shortchanging the middle class in favor of a big cut in capital gains taxes, from 28 percent to 20 percent.
During her campaign, Warren vowed to be a champion for what she characterized as a besieged middle class preyed upon by big banks, Wall Street CEOs, predatory lenders and other well-heeled special interests.
Jack Daniels licensed its name for use on a mustard, which is no big hit and may be poisoning the name of a high-class liquor with images of hot-dog stands.
For the first time in the airline's history, business class saw higher percentages of seats filled than coach, said Singapore spokesman James Boyd, so the airline switched to a luxurious all-business-class configuration, with 100 lie-flat beds on a plane big enough to carry more than 300 passengers.
If he did, it would be a big taxing deal worth something to our middle class.
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Perhaps just the reverse, given that Mr Gore, to distance himself from Mr Clinton, has chosen to bash big business and to pose as a class-warrior.
Aventis, the only big drug firm claiming to have a new class of antibiotic that's likely to win approval soon, is still held up after a two-year regulatory delay.
The working class voters helped Clinton score a big win in Pennsylvania last week, and they'll play a key role in Indiana and North Carolina, which hold their contests Tuesday.
In sum, nation-building lenders may in fact have the same traits that could win them loyal customers in today's boom times if - a big one - they can target the new class of clients.
Nike began expanding its operational reach in China about 30 years ago, ahead of many of the glut of Western brands that flooded the big cities in line with a rising middle class and consumer culture.
Although I was a reporter for a big-city newspaper, I had never written an obit, except maybe for a journalism class.
This brain drain is a big hurdle for creating a corps of world-class math wizards in China.
The 22-year-old is in his third season of elite-class racing, and has made a big impression in his two previous campaigns.
It's quite another--and a big mistake in America--to play the class card.
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