Such a new system would enable Americans of modest means to accumulate real capital.
In a society where everything is for sale, life is harder for those of modest means.
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But combined with Pell grants, Perkins have been crucial in helping families of modest means swing college.
So he understands the perils of quickly rising from modest means to riches -- then back again.
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He approached a local legal-services agency and began helping individuals of modest means hang on to their homes.
Selling to families of modest means was an early focus of the business.
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Born in Bulgaria of modest means, he suffered a catastrophic injury to his spine after falling off his bike.
Both men are barristers, though Mr Straw stopped practising long before Lord Irvine, and is thus of more modest means.
So let's say a beautiful young woman of modest means falls in love with a rich and powerful older man.
This problem afflicts the rich and famous, as well as those of more modest means, far more often than it should.
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But to set the cap, ministers will have to balance the industry's returns against the modest means of its putative new customers.
Part of his Usonian series, one-floor structures for families of modest means, Kentuck Knob was designed in 1954, when Wright was in his late 80s.
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Raised in a family of modest means, he started out in the travel business in his twenties, eventually moving into group and corporate travel.
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First of all, Hewson was born to modest means in rural Kansas in the early 1950s, and her father died when she was nine.
In such a country, its citizenry can elect a president from modest means, be he from Little Rock Arkansas or from a biracial family.
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Students of modest means have to realize that some schools are simply unaffordable, and they need to look for less expensive ways to get their degrees.
These names conjure images of country clubs and glamorous lifestyles, yet, for the most part, are cars that were targeted at buyers of more modest means.
And if people of more modest means are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican, then Democratic voters in general will purchase more baseball than football tickets.
As charities hit the headlines over the rich donors' tax relief furore, how can the majority of people with more modest means effectively and efficiently give to charity?
While renting a private island seems de rigueur among the Hollywood set, India is a place where that luxury becomes an option for those with more modest means.
The notion that Tony Blair is content to make Oxford and Cambridge the preserve of the wealthy by frightening away able students of modest means is even more ludicrous.
But his father, a dressmaker of modest means in the Chinatown section of Boston, discouraged Kraft from playing sports, preferring instead that the youngster study to become a rabbi.
And so, young people of modest means, who are interested in going to college, this gives them an opportunity to serve and at the same time, pay for their college education.
And to Wall Street the best part is the federal guarantees it retains: 86% of its loan portfolio, by dollar volume, is government-backed student loans--usually smallish amounts, for families of modest means.
Namely, if you are of more modest means, the proportion of baseball tickets you buy relative to football tickets will be greater than a wealthier person because baseball tickets are considerably more affordable.
Among them are tax credits for families of modest means, including one for college tuition, and an expanded earned income tax credit, which provides cash to working poor families who don't earn enough to pay income taxes.
The sharp growth in recent years of donor-advised funds, through financial services organizations such as Fidelity and Vanguard, have made it easier, moreover, for those of relatively modest means to set aside tax-advantaged money for such purposes.
Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy (two of the best improvisational comedy actors working today) portray Gerry and Cookie Fleck, a Florida couple of modest means who have pinned all their hopes of fame and glory on their little Norwich terrier, Winky.
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