They earned middle-class paychecks in automobile plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Good-Job Market: R.I.P.] Reference
In fact, he was from a very comfortable middle-class family. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Them Is Fightin' Words] Reference
I grew up in Downey, a white, middle-class suburb of Los Angeles. From Wordnik.com. [My Life as a Drug Dealer] Reference
Kennedy understood the risk of alienating middle-class white voters. From Wordnik.com. [Rfk's Last Campaign] Reference
It wouldn't relish facing down middle-class protesters in the streets. From Wordnik.com. [Crackdown] Reference
A more middle-class tilt might have translated into more consumer spending. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Jobs Albatross] Reference
The crisis in Mumbai may have jolted middle-class voters out of their torpor. From Wordnik.com. [A Jolt To The Middle Classes] Reference
But while the new moguls may scorn the poor, they court the middle-class consumer. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalist Tools] Reference
Perhaps Love Canal will then resemble any other well-kept, middle-class neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Return To Love Canal] Reference
But other middle-class families are leaving in droves — and they're not coming back. From Wordnik.com. [The Victim Of Success] Reference
Wellesley researcher Hertz has been studying middle-class single mothers older than 35. From Wordnik.com. [Unmarried, With Children] Reference
Many tycoons applauded -- but middle-class folks aren't so sure he's doing the right thing. From Wordnik.com. [Stagnant Stimulants] Reference
But the attacks, which are concentrated in middle-class areas, are becoming more violent, they say. From Wordnik.com. [Ft. Worth Fear] Reference
No wonder people are obsessed with this show: "The Sopranos" is the first modern, middle-class mob drama. From Wordnik.com. ['The Sopranos:' Making A Mob Hit] Reference
She comes from a middle-class home in the West Bank, has a degree in psychology and worked as a journalist. From Wordnik.com. [Ofir's Fatal Attraction] Reference
Obama, on the other hand, still hounded by charges of elitism, takes a less formal, more middle-class tack. From Wordnik.com. [Political Ties] Reference
It can be expensive, especially for a typical middle-class family like ours (my husband works in an iron foundry). From Wordnik.com. ['It's Like Playing Dress-Up'] Reference
Many middle-class people have been brought to see self-vilification as a duty and a sign of cultivated sensitivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Journey Up From Guilt] Reference
Even if I had read these articles in the comfort of my middle-class American home, I would have failed to get the point. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Trendy Tech Toys] Reference
In truth, middle-class women had a vital role in the factory-driven economy: they were supposed to be full-time consumers. From Wordnik.com. [Household Appliances] Reference
"It's becoming a middle-class issue because that's who's getting scared," says Ellen Goldstein, a private-pension lobbyist. From Wordnik.com. [The Scary Politics Of Health] Reference
Growing up middle-class in Tokyo, she always had a weakness for fluffy, candy-colored dresses and big hairdos with ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [May I Have This Dance?] Reference
Spending on elite or middle-class schools is much more popular than redirecting scarce funds to migrants and the underclass. From Wordnik.com. [Dumb Money] Reference
The duo's implicit but dubious assumption: without a decade of greed, those secure middle-class lives wouldn't have changed. From Wordnik.com. [THE HAND WRINGERS] Reference
Mugabe may not be worried about the flight of the middle-class, who mostly support Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Go?] Reference
The very swing voters he sought to reach -- moderate middle-class women, the so-called soccer moms -- hated negative campaigning. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Look Now] Reference
Lucy, the world-famous ASL-speaking chimpanzee raised as a "" middle-class Oklahoman, '' was sent into the Gambian jungle in 1977. From Wordnik.com. [Maybe A Nice Condo?] Reference
Taylor, 52, learned politics at the knee of his father, an American-born lawyer, while growing up in a middle-class suburb of Monrovia. From Wordnik.com. [A Bully In His Pulpit] Reference
She was born into a middle-class family in segregated Birmingham, Ala.; he was born into a vastly privileged family in New Haven, Conn. From Wordnik.com. [CHANGING OF THE GUARD: A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP] Reference
Under the surface, however, moving companies are bracing for a boom in business as middle-class Zimbabweans prepare to leave the country. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Go?] Reference
Though he comes from a middle-class family, he's the first to tell you he's more comfortable in a street fight than a theoretical debate. From Wordnik.com. [Our Buddy, The Prez] Reference
Clinton, a reform-minded governor, reflects party moderates 'efforts to recapture middle-class voters and break free from special interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Less-Is-More Democrats] Reference
But the middle-class wine merchants of Bahariyya Oasis buried their dead with human touches the Great Pyramids lack: one woman faces her husband, gazing on him through eternity. From Wordnik.com. ['I Sometimes Feel Lost And Lonely'] Reference
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