Sentences with phrase «for upper class»

Of course, we should note that the original MediaPad M3, a beast for its upper class, cost $ 299 in the US.

The middle ground consists more complex estate planning, family, and criminal law matters (often for upper class clients); intellectual property, bankruptcy, litigation, and other corporate work for small and medium businesses; as well as personal injury, employment, and other contingency based cases.

In 2009 Hefuna began a site - specific intervention series called Mapping Vienna, which involved such acts as invading the Vienna Opera Ball — an event for the upper class held in a public space — dressed in a black cloak with the words «Patience,» «Beautiful,» and «Vienna,» stitched in large colorful letters.

The London - Asia leg will run you around 42,500 miles (which sounds low, but we haven't included the transatlantic leg) and $ 500 for economy, and 100,000 miles and $ 900 for upper class.

Then you have to tack on 35,000 miles and $ 450 in economy and 80,000 miles and a whopping $ 1,150 for upper class for the U.S. to Europe leg.

When you transfer points to partners, the value depends on the partner and the usage of the miles, but you can get a return of anywhere from 1.4 cents per mile for a domestic flight on United or Southwest, which would typically run in the $ 300 to $ 400 range, to 4 to 5 cents per mile when you redeem for upper class, long - haul flights.

Ranging anywhere from $ 5 for domestic awards to $ 1,000 + for upper class international itineraries, award ticket fees are not foreign to award travelers.

A round - trip ticket will require 20,000 miles for economy, 30,000 miles for premium economy, and 65,000 miles for upper class seats.

All other American cities will cost 42,500 miles for an economy seat and 100,000 miles for upper class.

Searching for an upper class will show that option and all others available below it.

From an economic perspective, charging sliding - scale fees for the upper class is unlikely to have big enough net effects in reducing costs, once one accounts for administrative costs, for there to be big economic gains from charging fees.

Such a program would include the middle class as well as the poor, but take some steps to reduce program costs by reducing subsidies for the upper class.

The quest for paternal acceptance is a backdrop, but it's obvious that approval (like the U.S. Open) will be won, in spite of Mr. Ouimet's disdain for the upper class and golf.

Before she knows it, Colonel Behrani (Ben Kingsley), an exile from Iran holding down two jobs to pay for his upper class digs, buys it for an outrageously low $ 45,000.

Texture as in embroidery (kind of a texture at least) was also important for fashion history, but more for the upper class rather than the everyday person.

This was specifically true for the upper class that had no interest in wearing denim as this was a fabric that was associated with the working class.

A chimp could pass for upper class in gloves and a cravat.

«Health benefits of the Mediterranean diet are confirmed, but just for the upper class: Only the most advantaged people actually benefit from the Mediterranean diet, Italian study says.»

By the 1800s, chloroform and forceps became the common way for upper class women to give birth.

Rick Perry may truly be a religious man, but I keep reading between the lines that he is a man who has demonstrated that he can be bought for the right price, does not care much about the environment, people except for the upper class, and who shuns science in favor of the party line and cash in pocket.

But for Lowell, Boston had only a «savage servility»: a parking lot was being dug under the Common, and the Public Gardens, once reserved for the upper class, were now taken over by the «mid-Sunday Irish.»

The airline's perks and amenities, from its complimentary chauffeured pickups for upper class passengers to generous baggage allowances for passengers in coach, fits with Branson's whimsical disregard for convention which has made Virgin such a hit with its fiercely loyal customers.

«Any reductions we have in upper - income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class,» Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Nov. 30, 2016, in an interview on CNBC's «Squawk Box.»

Older children would co-sleep with siblings, with a member of the extended family or, for the upper classes, with a servant or nurse - maid.

It's easier for the upper classes to hear calls for diversifying the teaching pool when those calls pertain to its benefits upon black and brown students.

E-book will be for the masses, easy and cheap full of animations, links and music files designed for the average man, paper books for the upper classes highly educated and capable of concentration, paper books will be like a real treasure in the future.

Fortunately St. Moritz is no longer just a place for the upper classes, and the atmosphere nowadays is relaxed and welcoming.

Superflex awards are only for upper classes, including Ottima and Magnifica, but not Classica Plus.

They have never been a part of Japanese culture, even for the upper classes.

In this regard, Jonathan Swift popularized the form in his legendary A Modest Proposal, thoroughly juvenalian, an early 18th century piece suggesting poor Irish should sell their children bundled as food for the upper classes.

Not exact matches

We focus on income differences, since that is how lower -, middle - and upper - income classes are defined for tax purposes.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

I hated being stuck in one place for eight hours at a time, so we created a bar where upper - class passengers could meet and talk during the flight.

Stereotyped for appealing to a niche of upper middle class men, golf is a sport that engages a diversity of backgrounds.

Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

Abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax, which increases taxes for certain affluent or upper - middle - class households.

Saving for retirement, saving for children and their education, owning your own home: these things sound upper class to me.

The alternative minimum tax, which increases taxes for certain affluent or upper - middle - class households, is repealed.

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

I recently saw a «for sale» in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Denver which advertised, «no money down, lender on site.»

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

But things are going to get more painful for the upper middle class in 2018 with the proposed elimination of state income taxes, capping mortgage interest deduction, and limiting property tax deduction to $ 10,000.

Chang — who said upper - middle - class investors are buying smaller apartments for themselves or their children — said that his Beijing contacts expect investment to pick up now that the Communist Party's 19th Congress is in the rearview mirror.

The woman would enjoy certain luxuries and entitlements simply for being upper middle class.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

The middle - and upper - class male peer group is also a milieu for sexist development.

If the Christ paradigm offers salvation to the rich via his identification with the oppressed masses in their struggle for justice, this route must really mean a greater enrichment of experience for that rich man than, let us say, the enjoyment of good books and music which the continued leisure of the upper class could have afforded him.