As a B2B marketing professional, it would be easy to lament this apparent second-class status.
In some ways, middle-class status in China doesn't confer the same privileges as in the West.
This should not obscure the fact that part-timers tend to have second-class status.
With that, what is the estimated number of Americans who will fall out of the middle-class status because of sequestration?
Ross and his colleagues offered parallel columns of upper-class (U) speech versus the speech of (non-U) middle-class people trying to attain, or pretend to, upper-class status.
It would be widely assumed that she was under pressure from the company to make such a statement, and in the bargain accept her second-class status.
The Association of School and College Leaders has warned that confusion over its complex structure and a low take-up rate could doom the qualification to second-class status.
Patel saw his parents work hard to attain their middle class status and focus their attention on helping he and his siblings aspire to the great American Dream of building and owning your own business.
The Children's Society's policy director, Enver Solomon, said these children were being treated as if they had some kind of "second-class status" but the UK Border Agency and local authorities still had a duty to safeguard them.
No surprise then that the virtue of generosity or benevolence, though it has pride of place in the work of Aristotle--the only philosopher to whom Rand acknowledges any intellectual debt-- occupies a second-class status in her own work.
The issue of which workers are going to be affected, I was interested that in your previous segment talking about the debt that people have and how it's very hard to become middle class and to retain middle-class status these days.
For example, Alvin Ailey, the founder of the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Judith Jamison, the dancing legend who elevated the company to world-class status, would not have been strong and athletic enough to secure spots in the same company if transported a few decades into the future while still in their primes.
The lawsuit seeks national class action status and would be comprised of independent operators of some 200, 000 ATMs in the United States.
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The plaintiffs are also seeking class action status so that all female employees at their levels could receive damages if Goldman is found guilty or decides to settle.
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Also hurting the plaintiff's case, according to Campagnino and others, was the lack of similar damages across the population of light cigarette purchasers, making class action status difficult.
According to the folks at Pew, fully a third of Americans now admit they are either of lower middle class or flat out lower class economic status, an increase of 25% since 2008.
Other cases will seek to achieve class action status, and if even one succeeds then banks and defendants in the innumerable pending cases spawned by the mortgage market meltdown are likely to take it on the chin.
On May 31, a panel of judges from multiple districts nationwide will be holding a hearing in Las Vegas, Nevada, to decide if 70-plus lawsuits against pet food manufacturers, both those seeking class action status and otherwise, should be heard by one court.
But when shopping, middle-class Brazilians are more conscious of status than middle-class North Americans or Europeans.
Wal-Mart is currently appealing against a decision to grant class-action status to a gender-discrimination lawsuit being brought against it.
Murray noted that the Louisiana court also has the latitude to find that there are insufficient grounds for class-action status.
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The plaintiffs won class-action status that could blow their ranks all the way up to 1.6 million, though Wal-Mart is appealing that decision.
Becnel was seeking class-action status for a lawsuit he's filed over the failure of the levees on the 17th Street and the London Street canals.
The school filed a countersuit alleging that Makaeff's claims were defamatory and sought dismissal of her lawsuit that seeks class-action status on behalf of thousands of students.
But according to a new lawsuit, granted the right to request class-action status last week by U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Washington, D.
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In June, a federal court will decide whether a suit brought against the NCAA by former athletes, including UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon, will be granted class-action status.
The Keepseagle case was granted class-action status in 2001.
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