But they will not take into account how much extra everyone else will now have to spend to preserve their social position.
The implication is that it is easier to improve a person's health by weakening the connection between social position and health than by targeting behaviour directly.
They say their data therefore show that improvements in maths scores are related not to economic development, but directly to improvements in the social position of women.
"Voting is a realization of their social position of a citizen, as a person in a larger community, " said Shawn Rosenberg, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine.
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The Kumbh Mela brings together Hindus of all castes and creeds, but its most famous attendees are the sadhus (wandering Hindu holy men who have renounced caste, money, possessions and social position).
U.S. and French defense officials believe at least one of those marriages gave Mr. Belmokhtar the social position he needed to charge safe-passage fees to cocaine cartels that move across the Sahara.
And as Richard Hofstadter wrote at one point, that fear is natural in American discourse when people - or is a natural expression in American discourse when people see something threatening their social position or their social situation.
But the initial expression of rage typically comes from people who really do have some fear of a loss of their social position or fear of a loss of their social status because of some change that they see occurring and a change they see as threatening them.
An adult, in a distinguished social position of prominence and public trust, Jerry Sandusky, is accused of engaging in serial predatory sexual activities with minor children spanning decades for the purpose of his own sexual gratification and addiction, and possibly offered the sexual favors of children to others.
And also, if you could clarify your Social Security position -- would any of the money from Social Security, even from just Chained CPI, go toward the deficit as opposed to back into the trust fund?
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Earlier this year, the chief marketing officer of U.S. technology company Enterasys, Vala Afshar, announced that he would only consider Twitter applications for a senior social media strategist position with a six-figure salary.
"He's got a very strong social-justice position that will be much appreciated by the more progressive forces in the church, " said Virginia Garrard-Burnett, professor of history and religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
So how did we end up in a position where social mobility is poor and worsening?
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And there's a full-time social worker, a position not usually found in a regular emergency room.
The President has made clear his position on Social Security reform.
We expect the growth to continue, going forward, albeit at a slower rate as it strengthens its position in social media where it is up against Facebook and Google as well as in the job search space where it competes with Monster.
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Prom felt mostly like a job I had to do to maintain my position in the social hierarchy.
So that reinforcement, that mirroring effect you get from social media really enhances whatever position you have in mainstream or in blogs.
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Without any major products to excite the masses, however, Zynga has had a difficult time maintaining its position as the social gaming leader.
The conversations helped Mr. Zick achieve his target salary at his new position as a social-media manager at a hospitality company, he says.
Also, Accel Partners has distributed a large chunk of its own position in the social network to the investors in its venture funds.
On the other hand, it can be argued, a forward-thinking leader with the interests of his or her people at heart can be in the best position to implement social improvements.
Ten years later, in 1971, the position had reversed and social tenants outnumbered renters in private accommodation by 4.6 million to 3.2 million.
Conversely, how justify not contributing to a prominent industry supporter because he or she happens to have a strong position on an unrelated social issue?
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In some ways, Matsushita is merely crystallising something that is happening throughout Japan, as the country moves away from strict social hierarchies based on age and position.
Having been in power for the past 12 years (and for most of the past century), the Social Democrats also had a privileged position as natural rulers of the country.
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Mr Rawls uses his social contract device of the original position to advance standards for the interactions of liberal-democratic governments in a society of liberal-democratic peoples, and then to investigate the possibility of extending this society to include peoples who only partially share liberal-democratic values.
Logically, this should have made monarchy irrelevant, and her position perhaps that of chief social worker.
He said he knew that many people would disagree with his position on abortion and other social issues.
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