Early in the morning of July 17, 2007, police in Lima raided three luxurious apartments in the upper scale district of Miraflores.

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This compound, in an upper-scale neighborhood in Managua is said to be huge and lies behind twelve-foot-high concrete walls.

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Plus, Taco Bell marketing has tied it to Miami chef Lorena Garcia in another attempt to suggest upper-scale grub.

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Will they be the equivalent of a Scandinavian country in the upper end of the scale?

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Having worked their way into the upper reaches of the occupational scale, and taken note of how much the professions value abstract thinking, Asian-American parents have evidently made sure that their own children wore scientific spectacles.

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Overall, women employees earned on average only 83% as much as men did, because women tended to hold positions at the low end of the pay scale, while men were disproportionately represented at the upper end.

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