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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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