"I try to maintain my old standard of life because I don't want my kids to lose their pride, " she says.
Sir David says the standard of life that can be bought in the city for a low salary is one reason why he and other colleagues have not taken much better-paid jobs in America.
As Keith Skeoch of Standard Life Investments told me, the quality of life outside London helps him recruit, not only from London, but other global cities.
But utility service outages are a standard part of life in such nations and so it may be impossible to tell, at least at first, whether outages near the first of the new year are related to the year 2000 computer glitch or just a normal daily event.
Advocates say the lake and dam are arrogant examples of man's attempt to corral nature to improve the quality of life and standard of living.
David Cumming of Standard Life told BBC News he thought the wider impact would be limited.
And something that now happens far away from Iowa can have a ripple effect that impacts the quality of life and the standard of living for Americans.
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Andrew Jackson of Standard Life Investments, a British fund-management company, says office yields in China have fallen from 12-13% a couple of years ago to 8% today.
So I think it means that for the long term, there's an awful lot of work to raise Afghanistan up to a decent standard of living and a decent way of life.
David Cumming, head of UK equities at Standard Life Investments, which owns about 7% of BA's shares, told the BBC's Today programme on Monday that the union was "clearly a malevolent force".
However, some composite-barreled baseball bats that have been proven in laboratory testing to meet the BPF (Bat Performance Factor) standard throughout the life of the bat, through the Accelerated Break-In (ABI) process, have received waivers.
Questions of quality-of-life begin disturbing those of standard-of-living.
Standard Life sees most of the wasted money in shadow financing going to property developers.
But it added that it "continues to see real strategic benefit in the combination of Resolution and Standard Life".
The new combination had more side effects, such as infections and fever, than standard treatment, but quality of life was affected only during treatment and not afterwards.
These households will arrive at retirement with insufficient wealth to maintain the average level of consumption enjoyed over their working life, let alone the increased standard of living enjoyed after the children leave.
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At the end of last year, Standard Life still had more than half its portfolio in shares.
Ronnie Petrie, head of emerging markets at Standard Life Investments, said that the bears will wrong on China, but not any time soon.
"If we continue to see several more quarters like this, investors would start to get nervous, " said Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at Standard Life Investments.
The populace is being told that they need to stomach a reduction in their standard of living and their quality of life along with their wages, salaries and benefits.
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Stan Pearson, head of European equities at Standard Life Investment, said it doesn't make sense to focus on day-to-day turbulence for Europe, with the industrial production numbers just confirming what is known.
"There's a bit of relief rally from the growth data, which was weak but not as bad as people had feared, " said Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at Standard Life Investments.
The result could be an understanding of whether the tactics and raid that claimed the life of Jose Guerena were aberrant, or standard practice in Pima County.
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More than half of the investors at the company's annual general meeting, led by Standard Life, an insurer, voted against what they saw as the flouting of agreed performance measures in setting top executives' pay.
Nathan Parnaby, chief executive of Asia and Emerging Markets for Standard Life, said the company's long-term vision in the Middle East was to build a leading retail savings and investments business.
"The bid price values Mannesmann fairly and first impressions are that it is not unduly dilutive to Vodafone shareholders, providing the management can achieve the synergies they expect, " said Graham Wood, head of UK and European Equities and Standard Life Investments.
Cowen acknowledges many hiccups in the broad income growth measures (possible overstatements of inflation and understatements of quality of life) but says the great preponderance of evidence leaves no doubt: our standard of living is stuck.
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