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Mr Mahama hails from the Gonja ethnic group in northern Ghana, where he was born in 1958 to a well-off family.
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He grew up in the quiet environment of a comfortably well-off family, whose attitudes had been shaped by memories of the War itself and the uncertainty of the post-War austerity years.
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Her mother's family had been relatively well-off in Tokyo before the war, but the evacuation drained the family's wealth.
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Janah grew up in various suburbs of Los Angeles in a family she describes as not well-off and attended public high school.
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So the hope on East 78th Street is to sell the well-preserved houses on a quiet residential block off Lexington Avenue to a family or a developer looking to create a single 25-wide mansion by breaking through the wall between the houses.
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In "Pride and Prejudice, " after teenage Lydia Bennet runs off with the ne'er-do-well Wickham and risks her family's reputation, the heroine, Elizabeth, maintains a sarcastic yet ultimately generous tone with her flibberty-gibbet younger sister.
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Buckingham Palace said the Queen was taking her birthday weekend off to spend it with her family as well as to enjoy her favourite pastime - horseracing.
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The next most common factors is a drop in household income, which can be related to the death of a spouse or an independent factor. (Note: People who shift from owning to renting are generally economically less well-off than those who continue to own.) And the third factor: nursing home entry of a family member.
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For some of the students I saw at university in China, their tuition was being paid for by a number of people in the family, not just the parents, including grandparents, aunts and uncles, and even well-off cousins.
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