Its supporters are multiracial (about 60% black and 18% white), middle class, relatively well educated and well balanced across all age groups.
In a relatively class-less society, the "school" you attend is an important badge of identity and success.
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The country still has a prosperous middle class and some relatively clean areas of commerce where it can operate.
Rising disposable income, the growth of the middle class and a relatively low penetration rate for appliances are making the Philippines a hot market for consumer durables.
Here it must be remembered that the wages and salaries of the solid American middle class have been relatively stagnant in recent years and are likely to remain so for the next decade.
And since the Brazilian immigration is a more heavily middle class phenomenon and there are relatively fewer percentage-wise people of color who are middle class, I think that's one of the reasons why the migration is lighter than the country as a whole.
The New York Jets, meanwhile, selected West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith, a college star who was considered among the best quarterbacks in a relatively weak class of signal callers.
"Not everyone who is coded as relatively high social class drives a luxury car, " Gore says.
To make matters worse, since private equity is a relatively new asset class, the risks involved are still largely unknown.
Mr. Cabiedes said that paradoxically venture, often seen as a highly risky asset class, has become a relatively more attractive investment.
Managers are also constructive on retail and institutional inflows into the asset class as investors seek out relatively wide-margin, low-duration opportunities.
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Given a choice of providing nursing home care for poor senior citizens, keeping criminals off the street, or subsidizing the college education of relatively affluent middle class students, politicians are not about to favor the universities.
Despite these positive attributes, we have modest expectations for Invokana and the SGLT-2 class because the drug and class are associated with a relatively high rate of genital infections which will limit uptake in our view.
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The protesters argue that politicians, too, have ignored kidnapping because its victims make up a relatively small middle-class constituency.
In Scandinavia, by contrast, where class-based parties are still relatively strong, turnout has held up much better since the 1950s.
In this case, the appeals judges said, the lower court approved the fees without knowing the relatively tiny payout to class members.
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They are also relatively younger than middle class Westerners.
Tapping into the country's prospering urban middle class and, more recently, its relatively unbanked countryside, ICICI has built its customer base up to 27 million.
Railways, fast steamships and then the telegraph made it possible to expand, police and govern a vast, sprawling empire in ways that had previously been impossible with a relatively small army and administrative class.
Relatively few countries even allow class actions (Brazil and Canada do, although few cases are filed) and the track record of jailed mass-tort and class action lawyers like Dickie Scruggs, Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss speaks to the deep corruption that is always lurking around this form of litigation.
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The goals are designed to remove the spectre of systemic risk around an asset class that most investors and institutions see as relatively safe.
The smartening-up of these working-class neighborhoods -- with their cheap rent, relatively large spaces and newly opened train lines -- was inevitable in a way, but it has only added to, not dimmed, the cacophony of eclectic voices ringing through the streets.
The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
According to the October 1994 Reader's Digest, Mr. Mirzayanov is personally aware of Russia's development of a class of binary chemical weapons (formed by combining two relatively safe chemicals to produce a toxic agent) nicknamed "Novichok" (Newcomer).
Anne, who remains optimistic despite her many years on Capitol Hill, suggested some relatively small steps to build on what policymakers learned from CLASS. For instance, the Administration still has some modest funding available for a public information campaign to encourage consumers to think about their long-term care needs.
Although basic goods in China are still relatively cheap, it is costly to lead a middle-class life in China.
Yes, they're technically "ultraportables" (which we usually define as being any relatively small laptop and under four pounds), but to say an Eee PC is in the same class as, say, the Lenovo X300, the VAIO TZ, or the MacBook Air would be kind of misleading.
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