Unusually for Latino immigrants, these were upper-class people: urban professionals and landed gentry, almost all of them white.

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He was in many ways typical of the Progressives, middle- and upper-class people who were alarmed at what the growth of metropolitan cities and huge corporations were doing to a rustic, egalitarian America.

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While lowering the regular tax rates, they allowed the alternative minimum tax to recapture much of those tax revenues from a lot of upper-middle-class people.

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Ross and his colleagues offered parallel columns of upper-class (U) speech versus the speech of (non-U) middle-class people trying to attain, or pretend to, upper-class status.

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If so, where do you think educated, upper-middle-class-aspiring people will move?

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In some upper-class districts of the capital, people launched fireworks, shouted and honked horns as Capriles announced he would run.

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In Indonesia and the Philippines, 8% to 10% of the people are in the middle-class or upper-class brackets and can afford a cellular phone.

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Since these are for the most part produced in Rio de Janeiro and feature characters drawn from the upper-middle class, they tend to reflect a world where good-looking white people in expensively casual clothes flit around in a perpetual summer, attended by maids.

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And here's another curiosity - Boris Johnson may play the bumbling, upper class toff to perfection and yet many people clearly love him for it.

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Dr. Erlich said the technique works best for people who have the highest participation in genetic genealogy services, upper- and middle-class Caucasian Americans.

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