Nevertheless, converting the GOP into the party of the parenting class carries a number of risks.
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Last year the number of class action filings jumped to 207, according to NERA Economic Consulting.
The drug was pulled from the market, and a large number of class-action lawsuits emerged.
Aetna is famously heavy-handed with physicians, tying them up in restrictive contracts, and has been cited recently in a number of class-action suits by patients.
There is a lot of talk about a growing black middle class, but the number of people living on the poverty line may actually be rising.
Such a decision by the Supreme Court will deprive businesses of a significant legal recourse, opening the floodgates for an ever greater number of class actions.
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This case is important for employers because lawyers are filing an increasing number of class actions based on the FSLA, which tripled to 7, 000 between 2001 and 2007.
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And according to a panel of experts gathered here Wednesday at a forum sponsored by the Federalist Society, the number of class-action cases filed in state courts has dropped off dramatically.
But while there has been an increase in the number of class-action lawsuits at the federal level, Theodore Frank, a lawyer who is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.
Imagine a society that has a bell-shaped income distribution curve with a broad middle class, a smaller number of rich and poor, and an even smaller number of super rich and super poor.
Going forward, Las Vegas Sands plans to expand its operations in Cotai, which will boost its casino revenues that is riding the boom of a burgeoning middle class and a growing number of high net worth individuals (HNIs) who love to gamble.
And so what you end up with in New York City, is a very small number of very good schools that serve largely middle, and upper middle class kids - and then a large number of not-so-good schools that serve mostly poor kids.
Miami signed 16 players in this year's class, holding back a number of scholarships.
An online petition to name the third Ford-class Carrier (Navy pennant number CVN 80) the Enterprise garnered nearly 5, 000 signatures.
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The attorney for the plaintiffs estimates that their class of plaintiffs could potentially number 100, 000, and that is just a single suit.
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Teachers see 19-20 children as the ideal number for a class.
And since the Rajaratnam jury is made up of a number of working class and blue collar individuals, the prosecution is trying to avoid any link between Blankfein and the deteriorating economy.
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It also told buyers they should plan to hold on to their Class A shares for a number of years to maximize their opportunity to profit from their investment and that it doesn't plan to provide earnings guidance.
Even before the current crisis, the number of securities class-action suits filed during the first half of the year rose by more than 100% over the same period for the preceding year, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
As the narrative of the fight for the middle class in the fiscal cliff debate was inextricably linked to this number, this begs the question of how the middle class will fare in light of the need to compromise.
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A. class was international, with a number of students from China, India and South Korea.
He does not go so far as to reduce the number of first-class counties, however.
And meanwhile the number of middle-class minorities, both Latino and black, is growing relentlessly.
The country now boasts legions of thriving small businesses and a fair number of world-class ones whose English-speaking bosses network confidently with the global elite.
His 2008 recruiting class at Alabama was the consensus number one in the country and included a prized high school receiver named Julio Jones from Foley, Ala.
Though jazz piano has had legions of practitioners, the number of first-class jazz singers is small, due to the difficulty of turning melody and lyrics into true improvisation.
The number of middle-class Africans tripled over the past three decades to 313 million, or about 34% of the continent's population, the African Development Bank says in its latest report.
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Fear of being abducted is forcing a growing number of middle-class and wealthy Mexicans to flee north, leaving behind businesses and moving to places in southern California like San Ysidro or Chula Vista.
Santa Barbara has solid startup roots, hatching a number of world-class tech startups during the past 15 years, including: ValueClick, RingRevenue, lynda.com, Commission Junction, FindTheBest, Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting), Sonos, Eucalyptus, Software.com, QAD and RightScale.
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Depending on the number of first-class seats available, if a coach takes one over a player, then one player, as determined by the union, is entitled to be paid the difference between the value of the first-class seat and the value of the coach seat he was forced to endure.
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