Training for these volunteers - "nearly all ill-educated, unemployed lower-middle-class youths full of enthusiasm" - is laughably inadequate.
The party that once relied for its votes on lower-middle-class state employees, especially in the south, is now arguing for privatisation.
One is that the class solidarity of those who created and sustained the revolution, many of whom came from provincial lower-middle-class backgrounds, has dissipated.
It is a 1970 picture of a small tricycle, shot like the Ford truck from a low angle, with two lower-middle-class ranch-style houses in the background.
Born into respectable poverty in the tropical lowlands, he saw the army as a route to advancement as do so many lower-middle-class provincial youths in Latin America.
Another was that Yiddish theater brought middle-class German Jews into the same theater with lower-middle-class Russian Jews, to see the same dramas and hear the same music.
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His mainly lower-middle-class, middle-aged audience listens with rapt attention.
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Selectronic recruits from its lower-middle-class Delhi neighbourhood.
The actor Tony Goldwyn, directing his first movie, and working from a fine screenplay by Pamela Gray, beautifully captures a moment in which the straitened moral world of the lower-middle-class Jewish characters is beginning to open up with necessarily painful results.
Do U.S. presidents really want to orchestrate price increases, real income declines, and cost of living increases for middle-class and lower-middle class American families?
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How does that help lower- and middle-class families struggling to make ends meet?
Their reach doesn't generally include the small lots damaged in lower- and middle-class neighborhoods, which will be rebuilt mostly through local contractors, according to Gieber.
Rising housing costs in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou have exacerbated the problem of rising inequality in China, as the major city centers become unaffordable to many middle class and lower-middle class Chinese.
They just voted to let millionaires and billionaires keep paying low tax rates -- lower tax rates than middle-class workers.
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In India, the middle class is largely a new political movement as the lower-middle class plays a significant part in general elections votes.
Ms Banerjee lives in a modest two-storey house near a stinking canal in a rundown, lower middle-class Calcutta neighbourhood, and dresses and eats simply.
Having failed to get his preferred deal - which would have limited the extension of tax cuts to middle- and lower-class Americans - Mr Obama described keeping taxes low for wealthy Americans as the "holy grail" for the Republican Party.
When it comes to taxes, I said in 2008 I was going to lower middle-class taxes.
By my estimates the lower-middle class is being systemically priced out of American health care.
For now, the poor and lower-middle class together account for 75% of total spending.
Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.
Foreign investment is pouring in, attracted by a market boosted by falling poverty and a swelling lower-middle class.
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Raising tariffs on these goods could harm millions of middle- and lower-class consumers.
At heart, he was still a state college kid who grew up in a lower-middle class home, the son of an electrician.
The surge was accelerated by the financial crisis and mortgage meltdown, which put many lower-middle class families out of their homes, economists have said.
The point of the provision, as you might imagine, was to help lower and middle-class taxpayers weather the recession by putting more after-tax cash in their pockets.
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"We were lower middle-class, " said Pamella Cash-Roper, a 54-year-old nurse.
Weary of the strict surveillance on the ground, online and on the phone, he only spoke of "minor" incidents in his lower middle-class neighbourhood on the night of Sunday, 20 February.
From its foundation in 1959, until 1979, Dawa was Iraq's largest Shia party, seeking to bridge the gap between the Shia clergy and the Shia lower-middle class, many of whom took a shine to communism.
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