GARCIA-NAVARRO: It's an attempt to swing undecided voters, mainly in the lower middle classes, who are viewed as key in this election.
Robert Irwin, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, says the stories were written to entertain in normal, conversational Arabic of the late Middle Ages - and were aimed at the tradesmen and the lower-middle classes.
While most discussions of slang focus on the lower and lower-middle classes, the gentry, too, have their argot.
Viewed together, the wealthy were feted while the lower and middle classes were hit right in their pasties where it hurts most.
Of the area's 25m households, he is chasing just 9m, mainly the lower-middle classes, who tend to watch more television and care more about its cost.
Easy money policies are turning into hard times for the middle and lower classes.
The middle and lower classes went deeply into debt to buy things.
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Experts say many of the women running this year are from the middle or even lower classes.
Taxing issues would be harsh enough in the middle- and lower-income classes without the threat of real migration by those who seek to keep their tax burdens low.
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It is, of course, possible to view this entire episode through an extremely cynical lens: Putin is trying to strengthen his support among the lower classes which, far more than the middle class, depend on state-provided healthcare and education.
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The lower classes spend money on goods and services provided by people working in jobs that pay a middle-class or lower-class wage.
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