"We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad and club structures are in first class condition, " he said.

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He believes calling the condition economy class syndrome is inaccurate because there is evidence it has affected people in business or first class - or in people using other forms of long-distance transport.

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The experience of Manchester workers inspired his book The Condition of the Working Class in England.

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The Eurogroup, headed by Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, asked the Greek political class to support the reform package accepted as a condition of the original EU-IMF bailout.

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Another lawyer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said "no respected plaintiff class-action lawyer would raise" the issue of the criminal investigation to try and knock Lerach Coughlin out of the Refco case.

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Goldman Sachs estimates about 70 million people a year worldwide are entering the "middle class" and that by 2030 2 billion people will be in a far better condition than the poverty they experience today.

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As financialism has come to prevail over the last 25 years or so, the economic condition of the U.S. has in many ways weakened, with middle-class income stagnation, increased income inequality, the exporting of jobs and our manufacturing capacity and increased risks of financial volatility.

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