Sentences with phrase «growing about the middle»

By the way on present trends the global population is expected to stop growing about the middle of this century and then start to decline.

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She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.

CNBC»S Jim Cramer and David Faber ask Alibaba Group Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai about the company's future and China's growing middle class.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

We keep talking about income inequality and improving the lives of the middle class while at the same time the gap between the haves and have - nots keeps growing.

Ms. Stewart mused about China's «growing young middle class with unprecedented purchasing power» — the people she will target with her brand, which is owned by Sequential Brands.

Ms. Stewart has been thinking about how to reach China's growing middle class for some time; she told The Guardian last year that Alibaba founder Jack Ma had encouraged her, arguing that her past experiences at Kmart in the U.S. could have a parallel in contemporary China.

But even if all you care about is an overall growing economy, stagnating middle incomes can be a problem in a democracy.

This has happened «even as concern was rising about the plight of the middle class and the growing economic inequality in America.»

While politicians blame speculators and Americans whine about gas prices, emerging economies are growing their middle class like gangbusters.

What is it about family - owned companies that enables them to grow faster than their middle - market peers?

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

The base music of rap, hip - hop, shares quite a bit with disco, indeed grew directly out of it, and the identity / rebel / heroism focus of rap is a very specific one — rock rages in a broadly indistinct or middle - class mode, often against modernity, but rap's poetic world is «lumpen - proletarian,» and its archetypes and formulas are all about expressing certain notions of blackness and manliness.

When I asked y ’ all the other day if you grew up eating jellied or whole berry cranberry sauce, I was surprised to see it just about split down the middle.

Delta Educational Vineyard Takes Shape Students at Clarksburg's Delta High School and Clarksburg Middle School now have the opportunity to get hands - on experience growing grapes as they learn about viticulture and employment opportunities in the region's leading agricultural industry...

I know that sounds tiny but when you're talking about something growing in the middle of your brain it means a lot!

Ages 5 - 12 Social Stress As children enter elementary and middle school, their social world grows — and so can anxiety about friendships, crushes and family relationships.

I've noticed a disturbing trend on my social media as my generation slouches into middle age that suddenly people are reminiscing about how we all grew up swinging into ponds on ropes and playing kick the can.

There were times when I had to wait a day, or a week, or frankly even a month (I used to be VERY oversensitive about some topics; I've grown a thicker skin in my middle age) and then re-read everything with the perspective of time.

And just in case you're already worrying about your little one being teased in middle school, know that baby acne doesn't leave permanent scares like the grown - up version can, and it doesn't predict future teen acne problems.

There are also serious questions to be asked about Qatari foreign policy, with a growing number of MPs and commentators linking Qatari businessmen to the funding of Islamic State and terrorism across the Middle East.

«I'm about keeping New York City a place for the middle class to live and grow and a place that's going to help all of those hard - working people get into the middle class,» Quinn said in the online video.

The more residents of the Hudson Valley / Catskills region learn about Julian's vision for creating middle class jobs, growing our economy and protecting Medicare and a woman's right to choose, the more they know Julian will represent them in Washington.»

If you watch her polished announcement video, you'll also find this entertaining:» «I'm about keeping New York City a place for the middle class to live and grow...»

And yet, says Lee Smolin, «a growing number of people from different specialties are telling me they are waking up in the middle of the night worrying about how well MOND does.

In The Secret Life of the Grown - up Brain, she proceeds to unravel such myths about those middle years.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

I know for me, I had to do deep, deep bond - breaking work about my ancestral wounds that I was holding onto coming from a family of child marriage and female suppression in Iran in the Middle East where, you know, I grew up with my grandma telling me, «I was married at 11 years old, and was raped by your grandfather.»

About five bright yellow stamens grow up from the middle, while shooting outwards are very fine, whitish «hairs.»

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However, during the middle courtroom section, things grow increasingly unsubtle — the defense attorney (Johannes Krisch) not only employs an outrageous strategy to create doubt about the guilt of his clients (oddly, there seems to be virtually no media interest in the crime or the trial) but looks like the less attractive cousin of Nosferatu to boot — and go completely off the rails during the highly implausible final section.

It's a simple but poignant story about growing up, even if you're already middle aged.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Now she looks to Jonathan Ames» novella about a grown man whose experience growing up in the shadow of the domestic battlefield of his parents and his later experience on the very real battlefield of the Middle East informs his work as a vigilante whose choice of weapon is a «Master Series» ball - pein hammer.

This is a movie by a middle aged Baumbach about a middle aged man's disgust with the twentysomethings» world and growing to be pleased that he's finally out of it.

The game grows with each level that you go through and by the time you get to about the middle of the title, there is no way you're going to be able to put it down.

Her performance as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's loosely biographical (she denies it, but...) coming of age movie about a teen growing up in Sacramento in a middle class family who yearns for something more than the humdrum life in the suburbs.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Slackers Exhibit Sibling Rivalry in Dysfunctional Family Comedy Sleazy does it in this one - trick pony about a couple of middle - aged adolescents who refuse to grow up.

It includes their concerns about middle school ranging from fears about bullying to sex to growing old.

You can learn more about student - led conferences in the Education World articles Student - Led Conferences Successful in Elementary, Middle Grades, Student - Led Conferences Hold Kids Accountable, and Student - Led Conferences: A Growing Trend.

In fact, she beams as she talks about the succulent cucumbers that she helped grow in the garden here at Summit Parkway Middle School and that were served today in the school cafeteria.

As a presenter and workshop attendee, I love to ask dedicated middle school educators about what creative measures they take with their schedules to help students learn and demonstrate learning at higher levels as well as help teachers continue to grow.

Employment is expected to grow for middle school teachers by about 6 % by 2024 due to enrollment growth and a focus on improving student - to - teacher ratios.1 Also by 2024, many teachers are expected to reach retirement age, subsequently opening more positions for prospective educators.1

Top specialty - equipment buyers from Russia, the Middle East and China will speak about their fast - growing markets in international roundtable discussions, Monday, November 3, from 11:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m, in the Las Vegas Convention Center Upper North Hall, room N259.

Mrs. Koh grows frustrated that the focus of the reports about the shooting are mostly on Robbie and how such a nice, white, middle - class kid could do something so senseless, instead of remembering or honoring her working - class, Korean husband.

From Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin, who wrote the Baby - sitters Club series, comes a New York Times - bestselling middle grade novel about a girl, her dog, and the trials of growing up...

The book is filled with extraordinary insight about the values hip hop culture promotes, what it is like to grow up middle class and black in America and how pernicious the hip hop values are for most young, black people.

But Prem — the way he grew still at the sound of her voice, the way he butted her ribs with his head if she paused too long in the middle of a story — She told Prem about the old house, that white elephant of a mansion that had been in the Chatterjee family for generations: its crumbling marble facade, its peeling walls, the dark knots of its corridors, the brick terrace where she and Sudha went secretly at night to watch for falling stars to wish on.