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Hanging over all this, of course, is the constitutional position of Wales within the UK. Does the Welsh political class want to get itself into a position where it is demanding significant extra revenues from England by virtue of its hilly terrain and rainy climate?
BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets
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England slipped up in Pakistan but Pocock believes they could emulate the class of 1985 and win in India from the position of underdogs.
BBC: David Gower celebrates in 1985
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We need to pass laws that enhance the recovery, enhance job creation, enhance middle-class security, and position this country for the kind of economic performance in the 21st century that the United States enjoyed in the 20th.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
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Democrats have been trying to reinforce their commitment to the party's initial position of supporting only tax breaks for the middle class.
WSJ: Democrats Gird for Tax-Relief Battle
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Martha has had to struggle to achieve and maintain her position as the mistress of her own first-class restaurant kitchen, and seems not to realize how much of her passion, goodness, and intellect she has poured into her work.
NEWYORKER: Mostly Martha
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The inventors of the new scheme argue that social class depends mainly on a person's position in the labour market.
ECONOMIST: Classification
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Asked to rate their personal position on a ten-point scale of satisfaction, middle-class respondents are far more likely to put themselves near the top than are poor ones.
ECONOMIST: A special poll on middle-class attitudes
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Apple is in a class by itself, and its woes are not so much based on market position as they are on the problem of outrunning ever-advancing expectations.
FORBES: The Collapse Of Steve Jobs' Empire And Other Quaint Tales
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And if the position is that the middle class ought to have its taxes go up and then get stuck again because of a refusal of Congress to do its job, that's just absolutely unacceptable.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,
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W. Bush proves himself out of touch when admiring the price scanner at a checkout line, Brown comes off as a relic from a lost counterculture when he asks a college class if anyone has heard of Marshall McLuhan. (Brown also appears to be the candidate most preoccupied with the position of his necktie.) The movie has one tactic, one thought, one note.
NEWYORKER: Feed