In fact, before their insurance troubles, they were solidly middle-class business owners.
During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.
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African airline start-ups, local carriers and even international airlines are out to prove that jet travel can extend beyond deep-pocketed passengers to West Africa's flourishing middle-class and business travelers.
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Instead of tax cuts for millionaires, we believe in cutting taxes for middle-class families and small business owners.
If you want tax cuts for middle-class families and small business owners, then what to do you do?
And now middle-class families and small business owners are left wondering what their tax bill will look like next year.
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The children of the baby-boomers are currently entering their 40s, which creates a secondary bulge at the middle-manager level of Japanese business.
We had a two-year tax cut for Make Work Pay for -- 95 percent of working Americans got a tax cut, middle-class families, small business people.
And what we should do right now is give middle-class families and small business owners a guarantee that their taxes will not go up next year.
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High Speed Rail benefits middle-income tourists and affluent business travelers.
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They helped cut middle-class taxes and small business taxes.
If you want tax cuts for the middle class and small business owners -- pass this bill.
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In India Dr Mohan's Diabetes Centres, a business, charges middle-class patients to subsidise care for the poor.
He explained how preventing tax hikes for middle-class families is good for business leaders as well as the broader economy.
But the biggest losers likely will be the small business-oriented middle class.
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Supposedly, today's bosses are all newly sensitive creatures, and middle management is abreast of the very latest business-ethics compliance practices.
OFS, which stands for Orchard First Source, will operate as a business-development corporation focused on middle-market-debt investments, and to a lesser extent, equity investments.
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Davis, pleasant and reserved personally but intensely competitive in business, is the son of a middle-class lawyer.
Davis, pleasant and reserved in person, but intensely competitive in business, is the son of a middle-class lawyer.
They want it targeted to low and middle-income Americans, and they've said that some business tax relief is appropriate.
He wants to lower the overall sales tax rate to help middle-class families, reduce the corporate income tax and freeze business property taxes.
Five senators have just put out a letter to the President requesting that these three appointees have real-world experience, experience with the middle class and small business owners.
WhiteHorse will operate as a business-development corporation focused on secured loans to middle-market companies.
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The Kremlin tried to manage the discontent, backing a plan by the billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov to revive a pro-business political party that would help to keep the middle class within the bounds of the system in the December elections.
The Bumble Bee investment is reflective of the broader style at Centre, which Pollack and Jaffe say focuses on middle-market opportunities where the firm can leverage its strengths to help business owners and management teams that may not want to run an auction process with 50 bidders getting involved.
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The retail behemoth, which grew to dominance through a strategy of serving lower- to middle-income customers, is one of the greatest success stories in American business history.
His record of building roads, ports, power plants and a generally business-friendly environment in Gujarat appeals to a new middle class that wants its politicians to offer people a hand up, not a handout.
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And both times over that short span of two months, we as a small company with clients to serve, employees to support and year-end goals to meet, were in the middle of a major business launch.
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Etiquette applies to all business jet passengers, but especially to middle managers accompany their C-level colleagues.
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