Forbes points to a consumer class action against a company called DirectBuy, in which, it says, attorneys for the class sold out consumers by agreeing to a settlement that provides nothing at all for half the class, and benefits of very little value to the other half.
But the Netherlands - who have never won the World Cup, despite a rich pedigree of world-class footballers - took the second half by the scruff of the neck, with Van Persie breaking free on a couple of occasions.
Mr Powers has urged lawmakers to amend the law by capping the number of students who can be admitted under the rule at half of a state university's class.
Because that latter half of my class listened to the videos with their eyes wide open, and their eyes told their ears what to hear.
By 2020, more than half of the world's middle class is expected to reside in Asia, compared with one-fourth in 2009, estimates Brookings Institution economist Homi Kharas.
Without this change, Mr Powers says, the proportion of minorities at his university will decline: the top-10% plan yields only about 25% black and Hispanic students, but the university could admit far more if it retained control over the other half of its class.
Picking up the theme Melvyn (Lord) Bragg spelt out why the party's traditions in the working class socialist movement of the first half of the last century still had resonance.
If so, the lower court might consider splitting the class action in half, so the question of liability can be determined first, followed by another trial on whether the discrimination was so bad as to merit punitives.
Even before the current crisis, the number of securities class-action suits filed during the first half of the year rose by more than 100% over the same period for the preceding year, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
Still, the findings are consistent across all questions and across all countries (even in Russia, where backing for democracy is low, half the middle class supports fair elections, compared with barely a third of the poor).
However, more than half of those in the obese category were in class 1, and these individuals had no increased risk of dying compared to normal weight individuals.
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Bashing the rich is only half of class politics.
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In the United States, half of the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession paid middle-class wages, and the numbers are even more grim in the 17 European countries that use the euro as their currency.
The Big Apple now has the smallest percentage of middle-class residents--barely half--of any major urban center.
Tries during the opening flurries of each half by wings Medard and Heymans emphasised a gulf in class, although Toulouse still had to dig deep.
At the same time, over the past six and a half years, the special interests have had a field day at the expense of the middle class and hard-working families.
But around half of the country wants neither, underscoring the Japanese public's deep frustration with the entire political class.
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Jackson Hole Whitewater organises half day excursions on the class III Snake River with some big rapids through the limestone cliffs of Snake River Canyon.
Among that world-class core are several survivors of the 2007 trauma, notably fly-half Dan Carter, full-back Mils Muliaina, prop Tony Woodcock and flanker Richie McCaw, captain on that fateful day in Cardiff.
There is a little evidence that this could improve pupils' progress, but what may happen, given the current problems in recruiting teachers, is that a large class with an experienced and capable teacher is split into two, with half of the pupils being taken by a less experienced and perhaps less capable teacher.
Two elective at the Tuck School of Business, Business and Climate Change and Business Sustainability, were chosen by half the second-year class.
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More than half of them said they brought their iPads to class every day, including days they did not have the Project Management course.
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About half of them will never get out in my opinion: they will end up in the destitute and hopeless class, couchsurfing and scrounging off their still-surviving friends for a while before finally giving up their sense of middle-class identity and accepting their new lives in trailers, tent cities or on the streets.
The practical implications of these discoveries are many, with some already playing out in the world of medicine, where an estimated half of all pharmaceuticals are now understood to work through this class of receptors.
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Since then the company, founded by Andrew Mason three and a half years ago, looks to be suffering the death of a thousand cuts paper cuts, that is, from class actions around the terms of its deals, state regulator cease-and-desist letters around its marketing of alcohol and the me-too business plans of 425 competitors that have flooded the marketplace.
Gregory Rodriguez, of Pepperdine University, has found that by 1990 more than half the households of American-born Latinos and about a third of those of foreign-born Latinos were middle-class, in the sense that they owned their own homes.
In most cases--including John Hancock--here's what the R class means: The firm each year will take 50 basis points---one-half of 1%--in expenses off the assets under management in the form of a so-called 12b(1) charge, authorized for marketing expenses.
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