In between the two there is also the middle point, Point M.
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Those middle class tax cuts would be an extension of 30 years of Reagan Republican tax policy only cutting federal income taxes on the middle class, to the point where the middle 20% of income earners by 2009 paid only a negligible portion of total federal income taxes.
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The Economist recently defined middle class as the point where people have roughly a third of their income left for discretionary spending after paying for basic food and shelter.
Opinion polls conducted by the respected Merdeka Centre (the latest were for June) gave the prime minister an approval rating of 64%, down from the high point of his popularity in the middle of 2010.
So ... if we get to the point where there is a conviction and sentencing, the judge would have the discretion at that point to give multiple consecutive sentences, and the limits on the judge at that point are one-third of the middle term, which would be an additional two years.
And my point is the middle class has sacrificed enough over the last few decades.
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"I thought Connecticut did a tremendous job in terms of getting into the middle and getting the ball out to the 3-point shooters, " Boeheim said.
It would be desirable if the Middle East reached a political turning point similar to the points in history when Asian democracy and Latin American democracy blossomed and spread rapidly.
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Their point is that the middle classes may get more now from the state than they got 20 years ago, but they have usually had to shell out more taxes to pay for those extra benefits.
At the other end De Dea saved superbly from point blank range as Dempsey charged through the middle of United's defence while Bale again went close with another shot that took a nick off Ferdinand.
While Pakret has little to detain the traveller, it is the jumping off point for Ko Kret, a sleepy island in the middle of the Chao Praya River.
The key takeaway is that middle class America is disgusted with the financial markets to the point where their expectations, for the first time in decades, have no correlation with the reality of the economic situation.
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Along with the 3-point shot, the ratcheting up of physical play in the middle rendered low post play less effective.
If you are wealthy to the point of having left the middle class in your rear view mirror, I can appreciate your frustration.
When it was very, very hot in the middle of the day there was not point in being out, and you could actually use that period to get some sleep so you needed less sleep at night.
"There are no specifics in the speech and Arab countries are looking for specifics at this point, " said Marina Ottaway, director of the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
There's still a lot of difficult work to be done in Iraq, but thanks to the courage of the Iraqi people, the year 2005 will be recorded as a turning point in the history of Iraq, the history of the Middle East and the history of freedom.
Sabres scoring leader Thomas Vanek limped to the bench after taking a Christian Ehrhoff point shot off the hip during a power play eight minutes into the middle period and did not return.
In publicising the "middle class parents on skiing holidays" issue, the department was just trying to make the point that it is not only dysfunctional families that are in the frame.
President Harry Truman came to exactly that point when he fired MacArthur in the middle of the Korean War.
It could reach this point, he asserted, by the middle of next year.
And at this point, what are the expectations for Middle East peace?
And the way that I could describe the scene to you is basically in the middle of night the storm came, washed away their houses, mothers lost their children to the point where they lost count.
Diana Farrell, who is now a member of America's National Economic Council but until recently worked for McKinsey, a consultancy that has spent a lot of time studying the middle classes, reckons they begin at roughly the point where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter.
His running mate choice draws some clear lines with Romney's Democratic opponents over the size of the cuts in Ryan's plan and his prior votes on taxes, which they say favor the wealthiest Americans -- a point of contention in an election in which both sides consider themselves champions of the middle class.
The usually out-of-touch nature of middle management scores a point where it is traditionally mocked in TV comedy.
At the same time, some megacities in the low and middle-income world already seem to have reached a point of saturation.
If safeguarding international security is the chief aim of US President Barack Obama's foreign policy, then at some point he can be expected to change course in the Middle East.
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