First World Brazil is broadly Southern, white and European - though there is a sizeable black middle-class - and Third World Brazil is largely to be found in the poorer North-East.
Abramson put her purse down on a white Formica desk that she occupies in the middle of the third-floor newsroom.
About a third of middle-class Americans believe their retirement income will be 50% of their current annual income or less.
Middle-market purchase-price multiples for LBOs dropped further in the third quarter, averaging 7.2x, down from 8.3x in the second quarter, according to LCD.
So ... if we get to the point where there is a conviction and sentencing, the judge would have the discretion at that point to give multiple consecutive sentences, and the limits on the judge at that point are one-third of the middle term, which would be an additional two years.
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.
One-third of all the deaths among middle-aged men was attributed to smoking.
ATHENS, Greece -- Briton Kelly Holmes produced a masterful 1, 500 meters performance to win gold on Saturday and become only the third woman in Olympic history to complete the middle-distance double.
Third parties could be split down the middle as their judgement is subjective - how would they have felt in the same situation?
Meningiomas represent about one-third of all primary brain tumors and are most frequently found in middle-aged women, the American Brain Tumor Association's website states.
The Hampshire innings did not get off to the best start when new signing Michael Lumb fell in the third over with the score on 18 but the big-hitting middle order pair dominated the Irish attack.
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For all the flaws in India's democratic system, however, most middle-class Indians remain proud that their country can claim to be a rare democracy in the third world.
Today, YES serves students from the third grade through graduate school, though Eisner focuses on the pivotal upper-middle-school years: The kids are old enough for him to reliably evaluate their work ethic and their hunger for knowledge, but young enough that their minds are still growing rapidly.
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Now he is in his second year teaching third-graders at Deerwood Academy in Atlanta, and he coaches football at Coan Middle School with two other corps members.
By most estimates, the middle market is composed of roughly 200, 000 firms across the country that together are responsible for one-third of our annual gross domestic product (GDP) and one-third of our total workforce.
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He combined nine straight pars in the middle of his round with birdies on the third, 13th and 15th hole, before the classic 20-foot putt on 18 to claim his first green jacket in 13 tries, including a frustrating second-place finish two years ago.
Third, while corporate profits are reaching new heights, our labor market is just not working for middle-class families.
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Some questioned whether oil can build much on the third-quarter gains, at least in the absence of a geopolitical threat to supply in the Middle East.
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