The middle group with some college education lost far fewer jobs during the recession and those losses reversed almost completely by early 2012.
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Much rent-seeking is redistributing the surplus of one group of the middle class to another group of the middle class via the government.
The two remaining bids come from a UK-based businessman and a Middle Eastern group.
Since independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the pre-independence, near-subsistence level, moving the island into the upper-middle income group of countries.
Mr Livingstone's private members' bill is expected to receive its second reading in the House of Commons in April - but it has been reported that the prime minister has become "attracted" to a proposal from the Middle Way group of MPs for an independent regulatory body for hunting.
These are ahead of a middle-ranking group including the United States, Germany and France.
"In Lebanon Solidere is the blue-chip stock, " says Ziad Maalouf, head of research at Middle East Capital Group.
That said, there are times when it makes more sense for the leader to sit in the middle of the group.
When Middle States Accrediting Group stated that I had to have a Vice President under me because of the growth of the college, I pointed out it would raise tuition one and one half percent for the new position.
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This was a group of middle school girls, so I thought it might be difficult to engage them in conversation.
Dr. JOOST HILTERMAN (Project Director, International Crisis Group, Middle East): Good morning.
Overall, the illiteracy rate in the young and middle-aged population group has fallen from over 80 per cent down to about 5 per cent.
"I once challenged a group of middle-school students to name a subject of interest to them, and I told them I could put up an image that would show their connection to the story, " he recalled.
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Menke says it's a combination of the Olympics -- triathlon made its debut in the 2000 Sydney games -- a growing group of middle-aged competitors looking to reclaim their athleticism, and a desire for fitness-conscious camaraderie.
It is one reason why the Five Star Party was strongly supported by the "lost generation" of younger voters who find themselves shut out of the employment market by a older, protected group of middle-aged and older workers.
They have also created a group of middle-class people who have the wherewithal to bankroll risk: parents who have made money in Infosys or young people who decide to set up on their own after a few fat years in the corporate world.
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While Iran in recent years has claimed more than 12 million in the ranks of the group, Middle East experts put the figure closer to 300, 000 -- though they concede it's difficult to quantify a sprawling militia that has full-time and reservist cadres.
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Holding a big conference with your group in the middle of a slope or on the cat track at the top of the slope.
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Jack Harrington, an investment banker living in Nashville, was part of a group of mainly middle-class parents who gathered this year to research bringing charters to their communities.
The fiscal cliff package actually might have had some chance of diminishing deficits by raising taxes on the middle class, the only group big enough to materially affect tax revenues.
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What is new is the arrival of a group of floating middle-class voters who swing between parties depending on how they perform, not on promises of rewards for their particular group.
He owns 7% of the voting shares of News Corp. (not 7% of the company, as other media outlets have reported today), as well a stake in Apple and Middle Eastern media and music group Rotana (which is partly owned by News Corp).
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Ross' company, International Textile Group has developed plans for several major initiatives that will target China's emerging middle class starting with a partnership with China Ting Group , a Hong Kong-based manufacturer and retailer of textile products.
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The marked reversal in tax revenue shown in the figure did not come disproportionately from any economic group (especially the middle class and poor).
This group is the actual middle class: comfortably above the poorest of the poor, but also comfortably below skilled professionals, not to mention the oligarchs.
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The indulged offspring of the country's 200 million-strong middle class, they are a group for whom time and energy are used for emulating modern icons -- and deconstructing old ones.
First this, in London Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is dividing her time between meetings about the Middle East and the radical Palestinian group Hamas, we covered that story earlier in the show, and other meetings about Iran's nuclear program.
However, he claimed Group One wins in the Middle Park Stakes and the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere late in the season.
And she announced that this group of would-be Middle East peacemakers are going to meet probably in Washington in early February.
He's director of the Middle East program at the International Crisis Group.
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