The middle class is still treading water, and those aspiring to reach the middle class are doing everything they can to keep from drowning.
It's a tax that targeted millionaires in the 1960s, but because of inflation it can now reach middle-income Americans.
That leaves wide open the question of how the church will look when today's young fogeys reach middle age.
This decision-making style, which may have helped a woman reach middle management, may discourage her from taking career-advancing, high-risk assignments.
In 2006, McKinsey predicted that the by 2025, the Chinese middle class would reach 612 million and China would become the third largest consumer market in the world after the U.S. and Japan.
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However, by the time they reach middle school, only 32% are at or above a proficient level in math, according to the 2007 Nation's Report Card by National Assessment of Educational Progress, and they fall behind internationally.
Whether or not China is able to avoid the "Malacca trap" by building pipeline and railways across Central Asia to the Middle East, it will still need Dubai as its hub for its growing reach into the Middle East and Africa.
Yet the cost of living remains rich and out of reach for middle-class families.
Well out of the reach of many middle class families who nevertheless pay the taxes that support the UC system that now gets a lot of out of state students from wealthier families.
Curiously, prices have yet to see a commensurate correction and, coupled with mortgage rates of over 10%, have put home ownership in cities like Mumbai and Delhi beyond the reach of the middle class.
Biden stressed a commitment to reach peace in the Middle East and draw down U.S. forces in Iraq.
After all, runners often don't reach their prime until middle age.
China is boosting its military capacity and increasing its diplomatic and economic reach into Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
The OPRA options feed peaked at over 2 million messages per second and projections are for volumes to reach 6 million by the middle of next year, he said.
Massive deficits that have made it much harder to pay for the investments that built this country and provided the basic security that helped millions of Americans reach and stay in the middle class -- things like education and infrastructure, science and technology, Medicare and Social Security.
Voluntary insurance, even with reforms, would remain out of reach for tens of millions of middle-income people.
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It is expected that the legislation will reach the statute books by the middle of the year, AFP reports.
Why reach across the aisle to find middle ground when there is none?
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It is expected that the legislation will reach the statue books by the middle of the year, AFP reports.
One big economic reason why countries get stuck in this "middle-income trap" is that they reach what is known as the " Lewis Point".
Education, and therefore, employment, remains largely out of reach for poor women, in the Middle East and elsewhere.
He was eventually caught by Chanderpaul as Smith swept through the middle order and no other Bangladesh batsman managed to reach 20.
In recent months, Odinga has made it a priority to reach out to the country's middle class and businessmen, many of whom belong to Kibaki's tribe, the Kikuyu.
For their part, the Arabs have demonstrated clearly that they do not share the administration's newfound faith that a nuclear-armed Iran will reach a stable equilibrium in a Bakeresque Middle Eastern balance of powers.
According to the Boston Consulting Group (its partners reported some of their insights in Forbes here), a consumer company doing business in 70 locations (cities and counties) in China could reach 70% of consumers in the middle and affluent classes as of 2005.
The proposal would include an incentive for states to broaden participation in their public preschool program for additional middle-class families, which states may choose to reach and serve in a variety of ways, such as a sliding-scale arrangement.
After the defeat, the administration embraced former secretary of state James Baker's foreign policy paradigm, which is based on the belief that it is possible and desirable to reach a stable balance of power in the Middle East.
It could reach this point, he asserted, by the middle of next year.
But migrants and Germans lead largely separate lives: when German children reach school age their parents flee (along with middle-class Turks), leaving poorer migrants alone together.
It usually takes two months or more for the first to reach the Japanese island of Tsushima, in the middle of the strait between South Korea and Kyushu.
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