But once I started reading the novel it became apparent that Fellowes was writing about much more than the provincial world of upper class Brits clinging to rapidly disappearing social importance.
In the meantime, Roddick, who scored a superb victory in the Miami Masters 100 tournament recently, is hoping that Isner and Querrey can step up to the plate to give him some support in the upper echelons of the world game.
"It's never wise to imagine that either man or technology has the upper hand in the natural world, " he said.
Distribution of the money spent on medicines by income groups: 90% of all medicines produced in the world are consumed by the upper 15% of the income group.
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They drew on his childhood experiences growing up in an upper-class family in the Midwest before World War II.
That's vital if Chinese consumers are to get an upper hand and contribute to a rebalancing of world trade and financial flows.
Came to the bookstore and read to the avid interest of the black people assembled there about his chronicle of the upper middle class black people he wanted the world to know about.
If anything, Francis' outreach to women, along with his emphasis on "reinvigorating the Christian faith" in parts of the world "where secularism has the upper hand" continues the tradition of Benedict and popes before him, said author and theologian Matthew Bunson, a senior fellow of the St.
This is debatable, but what is not is that the pasty followed miners from Cornwall to mines around the world, from Australia to Mexico to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where pasties remain popular today.
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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According to the World Bank, only 13 countries have moved from upper middle to high income since 1960.
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The American upper-graduate programs are arguably some of the best in the world because of the mentoring that goes on.
The largest earthquakes in the world occur close to plate margins, areas of the Earth's upper layers that are being rammed together or pulled apart.
The shot-blasted, satin-brushed and polished rotating bezel bears the names of 24 world cities, symbols of the international 24 time zones on its brown upper flange.
At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.
Put on your walking shoes and start out early on the Upper West Side with a take-out breakfast from Zabar's, an old-world delicatessen that's a NYC institution.
And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
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