In addition to income measurement, a research team led by Professor Zhou Xiaohong in Nanjing University further defined middle class occupations as professionals in management and technology, entrepreneurs, private business owners, and civil servants (meaning government officials).

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Private-sector employers jumped on the bandwagon, but took it one step further, eliminating their defined benefit plans.

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Software defined storage could allow a further level of abstraction and cost effectiveness.

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Universities had their own assessment procedures, she suggested, and if exam results were to be more precisely defined, percentages could be used, without having to further confuse the exam system.

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Several people asked me about gluten sensitivity after I mentioned it in my response on celiac disease several weeks ago, so I thought this would be a good time to expand further on this less well-known and much less well-defined condition.

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Further, the decline of the private sector union movement and the end of the defined benefit retirement plans that were once provided to workers as a part of their employment package have only served to make the problem worse.

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Further, the parties will move to a modified retirement system beginning in 2017 that has both defined contribution and 401 (k) elements.

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