In 2009, the size of the middle class in the US was 338M the size of the middle class in the Asia Pacific was 525M.
It should also make investing in Japan more attractive for middle-size U.S. companies that find the Japanese market daunting under the current heavy tax, says Mentz.
Within a generation, the middle class in China will be roughly four times the size of the American middle class population, according to the UN Population Division and Goldman Sachs.
FORBES: Within A Generation, China Middle Class Four Times Larger Than America's
The M500 is right about in the middle of the pack for size and weight.
Certainly, if 750, 000 Americans lose their jobs, that could have an effect on the size of the middle class.
Among other things, this anticipated payday is fueled primarily by ever-increasing population growth and an unprecedented explosion in the size of the middle class.
Even in the hardest-hit economies such as Spain, Ireland, or Portugal, groups of healthy small- and medium-size businesses and middle-class households exist that constitute good risks.
It operates in the same businesses, ranging from retail and commercial banking to investments, and like its big peers, it ballooned in size in the middle of the Great Recession by buying a failing competitor.
While the Wall Street Journal (and others) look at China on a GDP per capita or the average spending power of the populace, these sources are overlooking the spending size of the upper middle and upper classes.
Urlacher, who will be 35 when the season kicks off, anchored the Bears' famous Cover-2 defense for over a decade, reaching a Super Bowl in 2007 while using his rare combination of speed and size to roam the middle of the field while the Bears defensive backs took care of the outside.
Clinton also shelved his campaign commitment to deliver a middle class tax cut upon learning the size of the deficit.
That said, there will be a few months of unsettling uncertainty for BAE, as its biggest customer, the US government (which contributes 40% of BAE's revenues) goes through the presidential election and then an ensuing debate until the middle of next year about the future size and shape of American defence spending.
More broadly, decades of immigration have shrunken the size of Christian communities throughout the Middle East, with most leaving for better opportunities and to join families abroad.
But it won't do much after the middle of the electorate has hardened against the size and shape of the trillion-dollar plan that Nancy Pelosi and company are promoting.
Ostensibly, the shot would open up play in the middle, but over the long run it devalued size and interior skill.
Over the next decade or so a new global middle class will emerge, with estimates of its size varying from 1.2 billion to 4 billion people.
Nirenstein's petition notes that in their anti-Israel diatribe, Levy and Finkielkraut ignore the fact that the absence of Middle East peace is due not to Israel's size but to the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist.
Regardless of its repeated failure over the course of four decades, since 1970, and with ever-increasing urgency since 1988, the consensus view of the US foreign policy elite has been that Israel's size is the cause of violence and instability in the Middle East.
Passing through puberty, into adulthood and now into middle age, I've wasted a lot of time lamenting the size of my hips, the gray in my hair, and the lines in my face.
Airlines keep shrinking the size of seats to stuff more people onto planes, those empty middle seats that once provided a little more room are now occupied and more people with tickets are being turned away because flights are overbooked.
But the response from the international community -- from Asia to Africa, from the United States, from Canada, from all of Latin America, from the Caribbean, from Europe, all the way to the Middle East -- this response, thanks to its swiftness, thanks to its size, was commensurate with the disaster.
While rival Christie's has set up shop in Dubai as an outpost for its auctions geared toward the Middle East market, Sotheby's is betting on Qatar, a tiny nation the size of Connecticut that sits on vast oil wealth.
But if India's economy is to rival China's by size, its financial sector needs to become less, not more, like the Middle Kingdom's.
ECONOMIST: China��s banking system is not a good model for India
But the plane's biggest advantage is its size, which allows airlines, especially those serving lucrative markets in Asia and the Middle East, to get creative with premium-class offerings.
The huge market size and Amazon pricing its devices at low margins which most likely will appease the growing Chinese middle class leads us to expect that the devices will be well received and likely provide substantial upside to e-books and other content sales as well.
FORBES: Amazon Can Drive Big Kindle Growth With China Launch
Because of its size and clout in the Arab world, Saudi Arabia is capable of playing a role in the Middle East peace process.
Even so, some foreigners are doing business, lured by the size of Iran's market, its educated workforce and its potential as an export base for the Middle East.
So far, winning deals in the Middle East seems to depend in larger part on the political astuteness and lobbying skills of oil bosses than on the size of their capital base.
What you see above is a 100 percent crop from this image, exhibiting a great deal of sharpness given the full 8 megapixel size at which the Sensation records its images, but also an unsightly blotch of blurriness right in the middle of the flower.
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