• In dramatizing the human price of warfare and of the drug wars at home and its hypocrisies Ayer takes a street-smart view of class-based anxieties: his characters are one break away from a toehold on respectability, from jail, or from death.

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  • Potential home buyers must also complete an eight-hour class and participate in a one-on-one counseling session on the program to secure qualification.

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  • Instead, Obama is trying to change an economic debate that has been focused on deficits and on managing the national debt to one about middle-class opportunities and economic growth.

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  • The IRS only allows S-Corps to have one class of stock and they insist on equal ownership treatment, meaning no special allocations are allowed.

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  • Meanwhile, the coxswain of the St Davids' RNLI team joined other volunteers on one of the charity's Tamar class all-weather boats as part of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

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  • In Europe one set of middle-class workers is desperate to hang on to protections and privileges: millions of others are stuck in unprotected temporary jobs or are unemployed.

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  • She agreed to plan the parties for one class but then also committed to taking on a fund-raiser.

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  • No one thinks raising taxes on the middle class is a good idea--it would be a big blow to working families, and it would drag down our entire economy.

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  • "These are dime-a-dozen lawsuits that are easy to file, " says Ted Frank of the American Enterprise Institute, who predicted the "inevitable free-riding class action" on the Web site Overlawyered.com one day before the first suit was filed in Los Angeles.

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  • In an opening chapter on how the Middle East plays in American minds, he shows how moments in Middle Eastern history used to be reported in the National Geographic, a popular magazine that at least at one time was a window on the world for millions of middle-class Americans.

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  • The wonder mare, who even has her own Twitter handle, has not just won all 24 of her races -- with the exception of Britain's Royal Ascot she has won them by staggering margins, destroying world-class fields to become one of the top-rated race horses on the planet.

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  • But charters also need to attract one class of candidates who are likely to be very keen on defined-benefit pensions: teachers who have already accrued years of pensionable service in public schools, and who want to keep accruing service so they can reach that rich third decade.

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  • Depending on the number of first-class seats available, if a coach takes one over a player, then one player, as determined by the union, is entitled to be paid the difference between the value of the first-class seat and the value of the coach seat he was forced to endure.

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  • One day, his university class has the opportunity to sit in on a war-crimes trial.

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  • Many providers rely on a blended learning approach, where in-class and online learning exist together, complementing one another.

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  • One of those detained on Saturday was Garry Kasparov, the long-time World Chess Champion and a world-class champion of freedom.

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  • Not just one but several pictures of a wealthy, upper middle-class former law professor are stuck up on the walls.

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  • His answer to middle-class families who feel like they're standing on a trap door, just one pink slip or one medical diagnosis or one missed mortgage payment away from falling through and losing everything?

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  • Guan is also aiming to qualify for the U.S. Open in July, but insists his success on the course has not hampered his studies -- in fact, he's one of the top pupils in his class.

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