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In contrast, for western Europe, the supply of well-educated people from the east may now sputter as the immediate neighbours become the sort of middle-income and relatively elderly countries that need to import workers, not export them.
ECONOMIST: Migration
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But joining us onstage is this fellow named Ralph Carney who's famous among musicians for being the guy who plays on all the Tom Waits - sort of the classic Tom Waits middle-period, circus music albums.
NPR: Serenading Science In A New Rock Album
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And I'm just wondering, what about the effect of this sort of second generation, the post-civil rights generation, and the effect that this will have upon the move into - because a lot of these people are already middle class - but the move into sort of the stable middle class, particularly for people who had not been part of it previously?
NPR: Reporters Analyze Wall Street's Downward Turn
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That sort of thing scares middle-class voters, no matter how energetically Mr Latham struggled to soft-pedal his own party's policies.
ECONOMIST: Australia
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More recently, many states have begun offering a sort of middle ground: A variation on the traditional design -- professional sports team logos, calls to nature conservation, celebrations of the arts, etc.
BBC: Flags on car plates - right or wrong?
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Long a haven to liberal, middle-class professionals with families, Brooklyn was the sort of place where you could discuss New York Times editorials with the people who wrote the things.
ECONOMIST: Geography of cool: New York
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Because the book was just coming out, I had some resistance to the presence of this sort of silver dollar-sized logo, with her name smack in the middle of the book.
BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript
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As a result, some sort universal coverage is the only way to make LTC insurance truly affordable for middle-income households.
FORBES: Policy Experts Agree: The U.S. System for Financing Long-Term Care is Crumbling
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Speaking broadly, Frank said he envisioned a plan that would include some sort of relief to states, money for infrastructure projects that are already on the drawing board, and middle-class tax relief.
NPR: Fed Helps Money Markets As Credit Stabilizes
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And to tell you what you already know, the UK doesn't have a huge sovereign wealth fund, of the sort they have in Norway, much of the Middle East and Asia, keen and able to make massive long-term investments in the gubbins that underpin a nation's ability to grow and create wealth.
BBC: A UK sovereign wealth fund?