With a huge range of devices, from Nexus flagships, Galaxy tablets and notes, through a mix of high, middle, and low range smartphones, there are hundreds of thousands of apps and games that can be installed on the platform.

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In addition to looking at personal characteristics such as age and relationship status, the researchers divided the countries into high- and middle-to-low income groups according to average household earnings.

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What has handicapped the middle class in the last four years is not that higher-income earners did not pay a high enough tax rate, but rather, that job losses during the crisis were disproportionally high in traditionally middle class sectors, and accompanying gains during the recovery disproportionately low.

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Over the past three decades, the American workforce has seen a widening gap between wages for high and low-skilled occupations and a hollowing out middle-wage jobs, say New York Fed Economists.

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American Expedition Vehicles, which outfitted Mr. McConnell's Jeep, is trying to carve out a middle ground between the very expensive, high-concept restorations that ICON offers and the low end of the SUV customizing market represented by dozens of companies that sell kits for do-it-yourselfers to jack up the suspensions of their Jeep Wranglers.

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Kohl called on countries -- low, middle and high-income -- to work across disciplines to fix this problem.

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REITs offer investors a middle way between the high-risk, high-return vulture funds and stodgy, low-return Japanese property developers, such as those attached to the Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo keiretsu.

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This program will provide extra help to middle- and high school students who fall behind in reading and math, expand Advanced Placement programs in low-income schools, and invite math and science professionals from the private sector to teach part-time in our high schools.

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Because while most of the taxes are levied on employers, corporations and high-earners (including small businesses), the individual mandate is a direct tax on low- and middle-income Americans.

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Apparel retailers have been led by the high-low strength factors of luxury shoppers and those shoppers who are looking for bargains, as the middle-class earners keep their wallets closed for non-essential items.

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