• And a few of them were annoyed because they had previously signed up for her class and had paid full price (Laura refunded the difference).

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  • The Pre-Algebra results were in, and she had a class average.

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  • And she had every class structured down to the minute.

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  • Emigration had eased some of the pressure on rural Sicily, while handouts from Rome and Brussels had educated and enriched its middle class, so the old violent habits came to seem shameful.

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  • The comment and post wars got personal and angry, and most of the social media pundit class observed and had an opinion.

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  • Our financial accounting professor had written FASB standards and our Macro professor (we had that class as the meltdown occurred) was having conversations with Ben Bernanke and recommending policy.

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  • He said the revolutionary underpasses had become frightening and the inner ring road had pushed working class Birmingham into the periphery of the city.

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  • Several things had helped, among them Elizabeth David's explorations of French and Italian cooking, cheap holidays abroad and the rise of a new middle class which had more money, and less sangfroid, than before.

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  • Among members of the creative class with no college degree, the post-recession unemployment rate was 5.7%, compared to 10% among service sector workers and 15.1% among counterparts who also had no college degree and had previously been employed in working class jobs.

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  • While attending the New Hampshire Medical Institute (now Dartmouth Medical School), he was too poor to pay for a dissecting class and so had liberated a corpse from a cemetery.

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  • Buyers stepped in eventually of course, but it was primarily high net worth individuals and hedge funds who had years of experience with the asset class and believed that the bonds continued to be rock-solid.

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  • They set up two classes of stock--a large block of nonvoting Class A stock (which was willed to the charitable Ford Foundation) and a much smaller block of Class B stock that had voting rights (and was willed to the family).

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  • And it likely would not have happened if the responsible governmental regulators had the capacity and will to demand world class safety standards.

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  • He built a simple site that randomly selected one of the 200 images and had space for students in the class to write what the historical significance was.

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  • That is the actress Prunella Scales answering a question of comic (and class) motivation that had troubled my father for twenty years: why on earth did they marry each other?

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  • The people who worked for Pan Am delivered best in class because they understood what the brand stood for in the minds of consumers and they had a genuine passion for bringing best in class to life.

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  • Capello will have been happy with how his under-strength side stuck to their task in searing heat, but Brazil had too much class and quality for England, who could not overcome the absence of so many high-profile stars.

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  • Katelyn had an allergic reaction and died after eating peanuts in the Chinese food her class had brought in for a holiday party.

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  • There had been concern that the minister would be second class and inferior to the other ministers, but these fears had always been unfounded, said Mr Robinson.

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  • Someone back in economy class had died, and we had to wait for a coroner.

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  • She said hers was a "working-class family" and it had to borrow and beg to get the money.

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  • The early work where I had this class in 1971 and we built this little village out of reclaimed materials.

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  • Gas was cheap again, te middle class had money, and the music started playing in incredibly improved stereo systems inside new spaceship interiors.

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  • Rebecca Maughan, the real history teacher, offered an encouraging first-night review, saying that the stand-up stand-in teacher had kept the class engaged and interested.

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  • Jan (gender not specified) wrote that her friend's husband is called Tracy Parker - and he had a Tracey Parker in his class at school.

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  • The journey took some 40 minutes, with plenty of contemplation of what a fantastic fight it had been, where Carl goes from here, how much his perforated eardrum had affected him, and how much class the Nottingham fighter exhibited after the gruelling contest.

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  • Those that have staked out an extreme position on this issue have run into trouble: The Huffington Post has had to endure a boycott and a class-action suit over its refusal to pay any of its bloggers, while Demand Media is trying to rid itself of paid writers whose low-quality output earned it a spanking from Google.

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  • Railways, fast steamships and then the telegraph made it possible to expand, police and govern a vast, sprawling empire in ways that had previously been impossible with a relatively small army and administrative class.

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  • "When I was a little kid in 1950, clothes weren't so cheap, and I remember we only had three or four dresses and that was plenty for a middle-class girl, " Ms. Quan said.

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  • By last year the figure had fallen to 54%, and the number of people who identified themselves as below middle-class had risen from 20% to 37% over the same period.

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