He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

"It is time to do what is right, not for the next election, but for the middle class."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

President Obama told the graduating class at Arizona State that what drives them through life should not be money, celebrity or power, but a higher calling.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

"For the working class women they ask for gains is not enough, yes,salary or what they should get, so this is what is right for them to do today,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

"What on earth is going on?" Some analysts say discontent is bubbling up from the Pakistani middle class because of U.S.restrictions on visas and increased screening after recent bomb attempts.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

"As you can say for this demonstration I think they should focus more - I mean truly focus - on what the working class or the labor unions really need."

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

Our class,in fact, is just before lunch time, and I'm happy to say that when they do my class, they don't need lunch any more because they eat what they make."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"We have just come through what was one of the most difficult decades the middle class has ever faced a decade in which median income fell, and our economy lost about as many jobs as it gained,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.25