But when shopping, middle-class Brazilians are more conscious of status than middle-class North Americans or Europeans.
New television deals allowed fans regularly to see the great teams from the working-class North, against the best from the London-dominated South.
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Midgley, born in the working-class north of England in 1911, was in military intelligence during the second world war, trying to work out Germany's intentions.
In the mid-1990s I found myself the only non-North Korean in a class studying Chinese in northeast China.
Broad mistrust of the Tories, cemented during the 1980s recession, means middle-class voters in the north are actually more likely to vote Labour than are working-class voters in the south.
Broadwell, 40, is a lifelong high achiever, a valedictorian of her high school class in North Dakota, homecoming queen, and a fitness champion at West Point who holds a graduate degree from Harvard and is a Ph.
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Widad, a 25-year-old secretary of Algerian origin, notes that when she was a schoolchild in Les Yvelines, in the Paris suburbs, four-fifths of her class were North African and only a handful went on to study for the baccalaureate, the school-leaving certificate that is the essential passport to a university or a reasonable job.
Due to a drop in demand caused by economic uncertainty, the report predicts economy class airfare in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa should increase by less than 5% in 2012.
Among Syracuse's future ACC rivals, only North Carolina State, whose recruiting class is ranked No. 81 by Scout.com, has a worse rating than Syracuse.
Many northerners voted for him because he was a Muslim or because most of them are as poor as any southern Nigerian, despite the north's wealthy and powerful upper class.
Bankers from the Gulf hope that the middle class, particularly in the Muslim north, will turn to Islamic finance, and that firms will raise money through Islamic bonds, known as sukuk.
Fear of being abducted is forcing a growing number of middle-class and wealthy Mexicans to flee north, leaving behind businesses and moving to places in southern California like San Ysidro or Chula Vista.
What Chrysler needs, more than ever, is a mass-market partner that can provide the global reach and economies of scale it needs to make a decent profit selling cars to America's middle class and to expand beyond its North American base.
So where are these good, middle class jobs, if that is your North Star?
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Jobs that form the backbone of the middle class in developed countries in Europe, North America and Asia.
"You're talking something truly world-class here for the people of the North East who are fighting cancer, " she said.
The North Africans bowed their heads in disappointment after showing less class in the shoot-out.
Pogo will begin service next year with a new class of six-seat minijets flying from North Carolina to Maine.
He got the idea from the kids he was teaching at an after-school music class in one of the tougher neighborhoods of north Philadelphia.
This year the total market for North America will be 340, 000 to 350, 000 Class 8 products.
Born on the north side of Dublin in 1951, Mr Ahern comes from a working class and politically active Dublin family.
By 2015, in fact, middle class consumers in Asia will equal in number those in Europe and North America.
Its important North American routes and business have been hard hit by the collapse in business-class travel.
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Its privatised ports move containers with world-class efficiency, and its airport has become an important hub for travel between North and South America.
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.
Latinos come north looking not just for bread-and-butter jobs but for a ladder into the middle class, and to a remarkable extent they are proving successful, as figures for both business start-ups and home ownership demonstrate.
The class A3 Pacific locomotive, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster.
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