• He talked about his own upbringing by a single mother and his grandmother, who worked her way up from being a secretary to middle management in a bank, to reject one of the epithets the McCain camp has thrown at him.

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  • With defenseman Sergei Gonchar in the penalty box, Alfredsson fed the puck up the middle to a streaking Michalek, who broke through the defense and beat Vokoun low on the glove side for Ottawa's second short-handed goal of the series.

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  • We are today waking up to a new Turkey, a new Middle East and a new future.

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  • Replacement prop Healy drew two defenders on a barge through the middle to tee up McFadden for a sprint in under the posts.

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  • They range from being well over double the US poverty line up to being a solid middle class income in many parts of the country.

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  • First he bullocked his way up the middle to set up a try for Lipman, and then the England front rower's kick set up the position for Maddock to cross out wide.

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  • Look, I refuse to go along with a plan that asks middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut.

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  • Rather than move the puck to the boards and out of danger, Niskanen attempted a backhand clearing pass up the middle only to send it directly to Porter, who had little trouble flipping a wrist shot by Vokoun for Porter's first goal since March 12, 2012.

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  • As the conventional and cheap oil and gas start to dry up in the Middle East, a bigger, even better opportunity seeks to replace it.

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  • Miller had three of his six strikeouts in the first when David Wright bounced a two-out single up the middle to end the streak at 29 in a row and then stole second before Ike Davis fanned to end the inning.

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  • On Monday, as you prepared to light up your barbecue grills to celebrate Independence Day, saboteurs lit up a pipeline in the Middle East again.

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  • His record of building roads, ports, power plants and a generally business-friendly environment in Gujarat appeals to a new middle class that wants its politicians to offer people a hand up, not a handout.

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  • I'm not going to ask middle-class families to give up your deductions on a home mortgage, or your deductions for raising a kid, just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut.

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  • The president-elect said Sunday that the suffering on both sides of Gaza's borders has led him to ramp up his commitment to working for a peace deal in the Middle East.

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  • You know what, I refuse to ask middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home, or raising their kids to pay for a tax cut we don't need.

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  • In the batting department, England's top four laid a formidable platform but once again the middle order failed to keep up the momentum when a score in excess of 350 looked on the cards.

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  • Jeff Skoll, a billionaire thanks to his ground-floor shares of eBay, writes about how as a middle class kid in Canada he grew up wanting to be a writer who told stories that make a difference in the world.

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  • Police decided to send a team of SWAT officers up a ladder in the middle of the crane "to try to reestablish communications with him and to, hopefully, safely get him down from the crane so we could get him whatever help he needed, " he said.

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  • There solution was to use some of the space freed up by the closure of a middle school which shared the building to expand P.

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  • The closest this season's offerings come is ABC's The Middle, he says, about a middle American family struggling to keep up.

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  • Kuroda's eighth inning ended with a snappy double play started by shortstop Jayson Nix, who ranged far to his left to scoop up Nate McLouth's grounder up the middle and flipped to Robinson Cano covering the bag for a 6-4-3 double play.

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  • Therefore we need to come up with a new overarching theory of everything in order to preserve the middle class and thus liberal democracy.

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  • On 38 minutes McLaughlin latched on to a long ball up the middle and beat the advancing Nelson.

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  • Waking up in the middle of the night to take a phone call, or waiting for emails from factories telling you about shipment is stressful and counter productive.

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  • He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.

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  • But that was also one of her failures: the paper's chief investigative reporter, Mazher Mahmood, dressed up as a Middle Eastern sheikh to lure Sophie and her then-partner, Murray Harkin, into implied admissions that her royal connections could be used to the benefit of clients of their PR agency.

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  • High school students could take up to eight additional tests a year, and middle school students would also have extra tests.

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  • Before my wife and I had been able to have a grown-up discussion about what to do (as recommended in those middle-class angst parenting books that we seem to have collected but never read) it all happened very quickly.

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  • To give a simple example: if two shrewd, competing ice-cream sellers share a long beach, they will set up stalls back-to-back in the middle and stay put, explains Stephen Black, a modeller in the firm's London headquarters.

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  • Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, has embarked on a Middle Eastern tour and all this diplomacy is designed to shore up a truce painstakingly negotiated earlier in the month by George Tenet, the director of the CIA. So much for Mr Bush's hands-off policy.

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