The plan was simple, though he knew it would take time: move to the centre-left and replace Labour as the alternative to the Conservatives when class loyalties began to grow weaker and socialism lost its allure.

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As the half wore on the Baby Blacks' superior class began to tell and they added their second try when more superb handling sent Willison over in the corner.

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It is critical that we continue the policies that are building an economy that works for the middle class as we dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession that began in December 2007.

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That's exactly how a death tax that was originally sold in 1916 as hitting only billionaires like the Rockefellers gradually began to apply to middle-class families who own, say, a successful auto-repair shop or invested wisely during the stock market booms of the 1980s and 1990s.

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As Dr. King began to travel the world, speaking out against racism and later class-based oppression, we know Coretta as the wife who traveled with him.

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The Parkers' own story began in 1883, as America was just beginning to develop a middle class with time for leisure pursuits.

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