They enjoy cradle-to-grave welfare lavished by the oil-rich state and the advantages of what has long been the Gulf's most open and tolerant way of life.
People who worked for the state, in state-owned companies or in state-approved collectives, enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits ranging from housing, education and health care to a generous pension scheme, with an official retirement age of 55 for men and 50 for women for manual workers (but five years more for white-collar workers) and a replacement rate of about 80% of final salary.
The benefits were twofold - it discouraged grave-robbing and slowed turnover.
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Thanks to their state-sponsored cradle-to-grave welfare systems, the UAE and other Gulf Arab monarchies have largely avoided the Arab Spring unrest which has unseated long-serving rulers elsewhere in the past two years.
One of the central achievements of the 1993 budget deal, the expansion of the earned-income tax credit, was an idea that had long been championed by the right, and it had far less curb appeal for labor-liberals than the promise of a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
But it is difficult to persuade people brought up to expect cradle-to-grave security as their birthright that times are changing and they should lower their oil-created expectations.
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He was a cradle-to-grave Democrat who held his highest appointive offices in Republican administrations.
Mamas, grandmas, nanas, your 400 tias and most particularly your girlfriends are in this with you cradle-to-grave.
The U.K., because of its cradle-to-grave health care system, is well placed to make the first moves.
The U.K.'s cradle-to-grave national health service is a gold mine of medical data, encompassing everything from prescriptions to cancer outcomes.
The French are proud of their cradle-to-grave welfare benefits, and do not give them up without a good old theatrical fight.
The leafy cemetery in the Palo Alto foothills is the final home for a wide range of artists and technologists, according to web site Find-A-Grave.
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Instead of merely selling the format to successful shows - a process that resulted in the dire sanitised American versions of AbFab and One Foot in the Grave - the BBC now takes the role of executive producer when shows are remade abroad.
As a result, K-19 manages to avoid the watery grave of U-571 and Crimson Tide without ever threatening Das Boot's claim to being the submarine genre's masterpiece.
Karma Samdrup, 42, was found guilty of grave-robbing and dealing in looted antiquities.
Remember, this part of Africa was supposed to have been the white man's grave - and it certainly saved us from a certain type of colonial experience.
But something has also been lost along the way, perhaps because that earlier grave subject-matter is lacking or perhaps because the writing in this book is simply slacker than before.
The courts' increasingly frequent and wide use of the law of contempt is cause for grave concern--not only to journalists, politicians and ordinary citizens, but also to the legal profession itself.
This might include inserting a proportionality test for EAWs to weed out trivial cases and giving judges more discretion to refuse extradition when grave human-rights concerns arise, as urged by Fair Trials International, which campaigns for extradition reform.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "grave concern" over the reports of Israeli airstrikes in Syria Sunday but stressed that the U.N. is not "in a position to independently verify what has occurred, " his spokesman said.
On Thursday morning, Tsarnaev was buried in an unmarked grave in Al-Barzakh Muslim Cemetery in Doswell, Virginia.
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She said people in Jersey were probably aware of the dolmen at La Hougue Bie and the gallery grave and cist-in-circle on the lower section of St Andrew's Park.
For example, the peripatetic blogger couple Claire van den Heever and Iain Manley used their Kindle to collect free travelogues, one of which led them to the grave of 19th-century French explorer Henri Mouhot outside Luang Prabang in Laos.
The situation was more grave for value-based retailers such as Aeropostale as it was facing a double-whammy on its margins, first from the increase in production costs due to rising cotton prices and second from the increase in promotions due to stiff competition in challenging retail environment.
After meeting the two leaders in Geneva in January, the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, expressed grave concern about the talks' slow progress.
Louis-area archdiocese since January 2004, has said Catholics would commit a "grave sin" by backing pro-choice candidates.
The 4, 000-year-old remains of the Bronze Age grave or cist, which were found in a peat bog, are set to rewrite the history books.
The man was no glad-hander but rather a hard-working, hard-drinking loner who worked himself into an early grave.
"There is no excuse for failing to get your children protected, and infected children can cause grave problems for others - don't forget, " he said.
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