The average wealth and education of voters in the Defence area meant that NA-250 was the place where PTI, which appeals to middle-class and upper-middle-class voters fed up with traditional patronage politics, stood its best chance of winning a seat in Karachi, the country's economic capital.
In Indonesia and the Philippines, 8% to 10% of the people are in the middle-class or upper-class brackets and can afford a cellular phone.
The work to change that perception has been wildly successful, but now the messaging around breastfeeding tends to be rooted in a middle-to-upper class mindset that fails to relate to low-income communities.
He was in many ways typical of the Progressives, middle- and upper-class people who were alarmed at what the growth of metropolitan cities and huge corporations were doing to a rustic, egalitarian America.
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The government should not be in the business of giving unearned wealth to any group of citizens, but surely liberals and conservatives both can agree that politicians should not be taking money from middle class taxpayers and giving it to upper-middle class and rich taxpayers.
Ross and his colleagues offered parallel columns of upper-class (U) speech versus the speech of (non-U) middle-class people trying to attain, or pretend to, upper-class status.
At the same time, Mr Chidambaram estimates that he will earn huge revenues in 2013-14 by taxing the super-rich and upper-middle class.
The majority of his clients come from the middle to upper-middle class.
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And many middle and upper-middle class families think that it will impress admission officers if junior has volunteered at a local hospital or participated in some summer program abroad.
They appear to have chosen an economic path that essentially penalizes their own middle and upper-middle class residents, believing that keeping up public spending, including on public employee pensions, represents the best way to boost their economy.
At trial, jurors saw a video of Lowe telling police she had given birth alone on Sept. 12, 2011, in the bathroom of her parents' home on a quiet cul-de-sac in an upper-middle-class neighborhood.
My parents are both professors and they now live in a brand new four-bedroom house in an upper-middle-class suburb in Philadelphia.
The Mahindra E2O is a four-seater hatchback targeted at upper-middle-class families in need of a second car in congested cities like Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore, where it expected to first go on sale.
Respondents included 5, 075 college-educated, upper middle class, media-savvy and politically informed individuals from 23 countries, ages 25-64.
And so what you end up with in New York City, is a very small number of very good schools that serve largely middle, and upper middle class kids - and then a large number of not-so-good schools that serve mostly poor kids.
This inviolate "death and taxes" truth sustained me--a peace-loving granny, a tree-hugging liberal--through 64 years of protected, upper-middle-class subsistence.
The prevalence of wide-screen televisions, fancy stereos and home-karaoke machines in Shanghai apartments suggests that this new upper-middle class has more money than it admits to.
Neighbors said Mr. Holmes spent at least some of his childhood in a two-story, cream-colored house with a Spanish tile roof in an upper-middle-class San Diego neighborhood.
Before closing up shop for 2007, the House of Representatives Wednesday abandoned its strict budgetary rules, voting 352-64 to keep the AMT from rippling across America's upper-middle class.
Not just one but several pictures of a wealthy, upper middle-class former law professor are stuck up on the walls.
If an upper middle-class girl has one or more African parents, for example, she has likely schooled in the United States or Europe -- maybe even a generation after her own parents have.
In the memoir, Wollheim captures in sensuous detail the textures of an upper middle-class childhood in Surrey, near London, in the 1930s, with the usual features: chauffeurs, nannies, seaside vacations (with the nanny), coin collecting, corporal punishment at school.
The first, 'The Gilded Cage', centres on Nightingale's sense of frustration as a highly educated young woman, from a wealthy upper middle-class family, who was prevented from following her ambition to be a nurse in the 1840s and early 1850s.
Passports and foreign vacations, once unthinkable for anyone but high officials or their well-connected kin, are now commonly enjoyed by upper-and middle-class Chinese.
They aimed at upper-middle-class female customers, whom they believed were underserved by the Korean market.
First, nearly all the students and families in the film were from upper-middle-class families.
Dilma was born in Belo Horizonte in 1947 to an upper-middle class family.
His mother grew up in an upper-middle-class family but was descended from less-than-noble traders and farmers.
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Even upper-middle-class families in California's Silicon Valley are spending more modestly this summer, said mother-of-two Dowd.
Look for homebuilders to have difficulty selling larger houses that would best fit a growing, upper-middle-class family.
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