Nelson's injuries destroyed all three main skin layers - the epidermis, dermis and hypodermis (the top, middle and bottom), in some places right down to the periosteum, the membrane overlying the bone.
The trend for huge celebrations has "extended socially from middle and top down to bottom" and "now we all expect these events to be big and lavish".
But when I went with Dinah and started hearing the words and the melody, I'm learning the whole song instead of just the bottom part, and also the middle and the top.
On the right, the top and bottom buttons scroll up and down and the middle button selects.
Whether it's the gap between the top tenth and the bottom tenth, or between the middle and the bottom - they all got smaller in 2010-11.
This has the perverse result that if the country gets richer, the poverty rate can still rise, as long as incomes at the top and in the middle rise faster than those at the bottom.
All this meant that for decades incomes at the bottom and in the middle of the distribution grew faster than those at the top.
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When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling, when people are slipping out of the middle class, it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom.
As long as the bottom and the middle are moving up, there is no reason to mind if the top is moving up faster.
Sales both at the top and bottom of the consumer market are rapidly growing while sales are being squeezed hard in the middle, though it is still the largest market segment in rich countries.
By that logic, the Spending Review is regressive in the broad sense (worse for the bottom half than the top half) but when it comes down to specifics, is actually going to squeeze the middle a little bit more than the absolute poor.
The unifying theme of the chapters that follow is that we are unrealistic about students at every level of academic ability asking too much from those at the bottom, asking the wrong things from those in the middle, and asking too little from those at the top.
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