But those who have made it to the very top, after starting at the very bottom, are rare.
According to Mr Ravallion, poverty-reduction policies seem to help most at the very bottom.
However, a gap will still remain at the very bottom of the scale.
At the very bottom, you'll find a familiar arrangement of permanent shortcuts to the phone, email, messaging and camera apps.
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Alarmed at the prospect of losing money, many of them sold on the way down or, worse, at the very bottom.
Our favorite comes at the very bottom of the "Vader Fader" page.
Thank you, America, from the very bottom of New York's heart.
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Unsurprising for anyone who spent any time cursing exclusivity in the years before the iPhone expanded to Verizon, ATT mobile is at the very bottom of the list.
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"We're trying to capture what happens from the very bottom of the food chain to the very top and look at the dynamics throughout the ecosystem, " said Mackinson.
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As you would expect, some of them are in the very top for a couple years, and then those same ones might be in the very bottom for several years.
Similarly, if you are on the desktop site and want to view the mobile version, you can find a link to "mobile site" at the very bottom of the page.
Spencer Birns, the airport's head of commercial operations, said it was expected that passenger numbers would "hit the very bottom" during 2012 as the full-year effect of bmibaby's departure was recorded.
And then the other thing I think is critically important is that we're going to have to start at the very bottom and do some financial education and literacy programs in communities and in schools.
At the very bottom of our list is Russell Crowe, whose standing in Hollywood has shrunk since he scored back-to-back consecutive Oscar nods for The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001).
There has been a slight fall in the number who reckon they are at either the very top or the very bottom of the pile, consistent with the move to working behind desks and in air-conditioned places.
"Buckets for the Cure" website states, albeit at the very bottom, that individual consumer purchases will not directly increase the total donation -- rather that the money is determined by purchases of buckets by KFC restaurant operators.
This persistence at the bottom of the rankings is well illustrated by the adviser on the Hulbert Financial Digest's monitored list who, one year ago, was at the very bottom for trailing 10-year performance: Charlie Buck's Situational Strategies.
European countries seem to have been the most relaxed last year, with the six lowest-ranking nations all members of the EU. In Sweden, at the very bottom, only 24% of businessmen said they felt more stressed than a year ago.
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Then, starting in the 1990s, academic evidence started to build up about the minimum wage, in the US and the UK, suggesting that, at the very bottom of the labour market, telling companies to pay people a little more did not actually cost jobs.
We can see what they're getting at, we suppose: the Mini has never gotten a lot of attention, but the similarly-discontinued products AI compares it to -- the Cube, the PowerBook 2400, and the 12-inch PowerBook G4 -- were all higher-end machines, while the Mini sits at the very bottom of Apple's product line.
There was a white machine, like a fat pup with a trunk, moving very slowly along the bottom.
"It's bottoming out or very close to the bottom, " says one-time actor Mobius.
Millman is right: disruption rarely comes from the top down, but the technology provided by those big corporations can be very useful in creating bottom-up movements.
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In an industry that has seen increased competition for live sports and soccer inventory in the last five years or so the fact that no dollar value was included in the press release tells you that the deals are all about exposure and contribute very little to the bottom line.
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The Dax was sharply lower early last Friday, but closed higher, and could have formed a very-short-term bottom.
Turkish coffee, which is served in small cups where the grounds settle at the bottom, is very thick, dark, strong and sweet.
You get better decision-making and you get less herd behavior and both of those things hit your bottom line with very positive results.
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