The blurring of what is considered upscale and downscale also helps them prioritize their luxury purchases.
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This blurring of the lines between public and private is not that unusual in China.
Israel's fluid and fickle party structure reflected a blurring of the old hawk-dove demarcation.
The fourth change is the blurring of the old demarcation lines between broadcasters and providers of sports.
There have been criticisms from teachers' unions about the blurring of this boundary.
There are two rather different ways to look at this blurring of boundaries.
Caste-rights groups, in fact, say that some violence against women is a backlash against a modern blurring of caste lines.
But legal experts have questioned the criteria for including suspects and the blurring of lines between intelligence services and the police.
This blurring of boundaries can harm both the quality of your work and the quality of your life, if you let it.
However, Leeds City Council objected to the use of green-belt land and a possible blurring of the boundaries between Leeds and Wakefield.
One consequence of the media hunger for page views is a blurring of the line between news reporting and other forms of content.
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Nor can the present federal agencies deal with thousands of new products, many resulting from the blurring of lines between banks and brokers.
The blurring of boundaries is also true at traditional sundry stores, which want to service folks who run offices out of their homes.
It's this vivid blurring of the real and the imaginary, the material world and the spiritual, that's at the heart of Cameron's movie.
In speeches he has made subsequently, Lord Butler has been highly critical of the blurring of lines between political appointees and civil servants.
There will also be a blurring of work and social identities as photos and details of people's personal lives become increasingly public on social networking sites.
There is not, as yet, much sign that this will happen, although some blurring of differences was perceptible in this week's flurry of diplomatic activity.
"I do think the blurring of the lines needs to be looked at, " said Nigel Le Gresley, chairman of the Essex branch of the Magistrates' Association.
Jeff Jarvis, a magazine and newspaper veteran who blogs at BuzzMachine.com, hails the blurring of the lines between traditional media and the blogosphere as a positive development.
This blurring of the boundaries between online and offline customer interaction is something that may set successful brands apart as the web integrates further into our daily lives.
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This blurring of the distinction between private and public equity markets might make sense if a publicly quoted firm proved to be the best vehicle for providing venture capital.
The TSA has defended the scanners, promoting their built-in privacy protection measures including blurring of faces and making it impossible for the machines to store or send the images.
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But it is not impossible that the resultant blurring of basic and applied research, allied to the emergence of the core-and-cloud university, will turn out to revitalise university science rather than damage it.
They concluded that the black drop results from blurring of the image (whether from Earth's atmosphere, or inevitable imperfections of the telescope) combined with the way that the disc of the sun fades in brightness towards its rim.
The blurring of work and home.
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The blurring of this distinction in Iraq, where tales of gung-ho private military companies have multiplied along with a surge in demand for their services, has prompted the big British firms to find a way of distinguishing themselves from the rabble.
Dr Massey and his colleagues were able to map the matter (both dark and visible) in the bit of the firmament covered by the Cosmic Evolution Survey by looking for characteristic distortions in the shape of distant galaxies that only Hubble, which is beyond the image-blurring effects of the atmosphere, can see.
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But it upset government finances, forcing local authorities to rely on the state and blurring lines of accountability.
Fame can homogenize an artist, blurring parts of his identity so critics can slot him into pop cultural trends or the public can use him to fill national psychic needs.
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