It also offered a leg-up for the rural masses to climb the social ladder.
It can be easy to forget that other aspects of Welsh life got a leg-up from the Thatcher government.
The noted Charles Mingus band alumnist Jackie Bayard(ph) gave him a leg-up on other studio wizards with some real jazz chops and a unique sonic sensibility.
He may have more support to continue rolling back some affirmative action policies introduced over 30 years ago to give a leg-up to the majority ethnic-Malay population.
To give non-English-speaking children a leg-up, the government agreed last year that all pupils should be taught in their mother tongue for at least the first three years of primary school.
The rule, Regulation Fair Disclosure, was adopted in 2000 to address a leg-up some institutional investors were getting via information about public companies that was not available to all investors.
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At a time when the U.S. economy and the stock market are looking for a leg-up, corporate executives are leaving economic development opportunities on the table because they fail to invest, engage and learn more about how to connect culturally with this vibrant Hispanic consumer segment.
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Unlike many men, who prefer not to let their competitive edge be known, my experience tells me that most female entrepreneurs are willing to share their secrets to success in order to gain tips from other successful business people and even to help give a newbie a leg-up.
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Like me, I felt a thrill running up my leg - a thrill running up my leg.
Apple has a clear leg-up in profits because it covers hardware, software, and in many cases, retail.
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The elite few who can access it get a valuable leg-up in the job market, without the burden of student debt.
Google has a clear leg-up in quantity because it gives away it operating system and leaves the phone itself to partners.
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Rocketing house prices may have left one generation with a windfall, but the next needs more of a parental leg-up than ever.
The trend to quotas is most visible in countries where a legal leg-up can overcome prejudice, in the form of violence, shortage of cash, or lack of media attention.
While their present capabilities to intercept ballistic missiles are, unfortunately, quite limited, the existing ships, launchers, missiles, sensors, communications systems and people who operate them constitute a huge leg-up on the task of fielding the sort of anti-missile systems we need.
His second over contained an innocuous slider down the leg-side, but Simmons lazily flicked at it, and Cook - crucially standing a few yards closer to the action than a regulation square-leg - snapped up a catch.
The opposition also has also pledged to unwind a race-based affirmative action policy designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population and to reduce corruption, changes that younger voters strongly support, analysts say.
Its pledges to unwind a decades-old race-based affirmative action policy designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population and reduce corruption have a strong appeal among mostly younger voters, analysts say.
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With incremental execution, the dance's signature flipped-up-and-back flexed-leg-and-foot pose looked less like a kicked up heel than a pretty and preened piece of plumage.
Doing a step-up while holding a weight in the opposite hand of the leg you are stepping up with will help with balance and strengthen the muscles around the ankle, says Mr. Ordas.
The one in 20 applicants who manages to get in--like those at Parsons in New York or the Rhode Island School of Design--has a leg up.
The left-hander, who began his Test career with 49 against Australia in Johannesburg four years ago, went one better when he clipped MacGill away through the leg-side for three to bring up a 106-ball half century.
But some commentators have accused him of being a bit too casual at times - and he certainly fell to a loose stroke on Friday when he popped up a catch to short-leg off Australia's admirable, though injured, spinner Nathan Hauritz.
These two American billionaires seem to have a leg up on another billionaire-backed company from south of the border.
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Critics of a Google-ITA combination say it would give Google a further leg up in the search industry, which it dominates.
But perhaps equally important for the long haul, Apple has a huge leg up in the laptop-replacement market, despite not targeting it aggressively at all.
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India were certainly cautious after lunch, as Virender Sehwag bowled on a leg-side line at Hayden with up to four men on the boundary ropes on that side of the wicket.
Down a dog-leg alleyway off a nondescript stretch of busy Shijo Avenue, and up one of the narrowest flights of stairs I have ever climbed, I meet the fourth and fifth generations of the Takenaka printing family.
Giving the less advantaged a leg up means beginning with pre-school and includes retraining for the less skilled.
Taylor flays Plunkett down to long-leg for a couple and picks up another single with a tickle to leg.
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