Sentences with phrase «very upper middle»

The notion of trying to discover what one is good at or for, and shaping a career to realize these potentialities, would appear very upper middle class to many Americans, even today, when most aspire to college.

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But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

It would be very simple if the world was one neighbor hood and 75 % were middle class and 15 % were upper middle 5 % rich and 5 % poor.

Sadly, the noble legacy of Christian progressivism and the Social Gospel movement has devolved to a narrow set of priorities that has everything to do with upper - middle - class preoccupations and very little to do with the needs of the poor.

But while both nations have a very large middle class, both also have a strong, and increasingly rich, upper class.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

«The recent world - record breakers in middle - distance running — Morceli, but El Guerrouj in particular — have had defining characteristics of very long strides and extremely light carriages, or upper bodies,» says Craig Masback, the CEO of USA Track & Field and a former 3:52 miler.

OrganicMania: There's also a perception that this rising green consciousness is a very upper - middle - class phenomenon.

«Looking over the period of the consolidation as a whole, poorer households have done worse than those in the middle and upper middle parts of the income distribution, though it remains the case that the some of the biggest losers have been those right at the very top of the income distribution.»

Mr. Wright, however, was hazier on the details of how to reconcile such a moratorium with Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to construct and maintain 200,000 units of affordable housing, which hinges in part on re-zonings and outlays for upper - income construction that devotes 20 percent new units for low - and middle - income earners — a plan Mr. Wright said he was «very much in support of.»

Growing up in an upper - middle - class community in Munich, he was, he says, a «very, very, very bad kid.»

Everything on the surface of the Earth rests on massive tectonic plates that resemble a jelly sandwich, with two rigid pieces — the upper crust and the upper mantle — enclosing a gooey middle layer of very hot rocks, which is the lower crust.

Once there, instead of building up their social capital, they continue to «concentrate very intensely on their work,... whereas often their upper or middle - class peers are involved in societies; they're networking; they're doing a whole range of things that actually support their career,» Reay says.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).

Animal - source foods tend to be middle - ground to upper - middle - ground on nutrients, and a mixed diet that's very meat - heavy tends to come out even with or slightly - better than a plant - heavy diet.

This routine allowed Ed to work all sections of his chest very hard: upper, lower, middle, outer and inner.

It's about a very bad Thanksgiving break for a couple upper middle class families in the 70s.

One very useful aspect of Denby's film criticism, apart from its beautifully chiseled prose style, is the way it reliably, often hilariously, reflects a middle - class or upper - class blindness to the world everyone else inhabits.

Since its implementation by Global SchoolNet in 1991, the project has been extremely well received and very popular, particularly among its target audience of upper elementary and middle level teachers and students.

Those who grow up in poverty experience a very different upbringing from middle or upper class kids.

Therefore, the marketing of these schools in the private housing industry became a very important component of attracting white upper - middle - class families to the suburbs, exacerbating and continuing the issue of segregation in the public school system.

even those of us in the upper middle class... are feeling very fine in the slightest

All of these things will likely have to be taken on step at a time, but they can be very important steps for making it into the upper middle class.

Emerald Pools is a very popular hike and has three different levels: lower, middle and upper pools.

- starts you off in a small town - in town you can visit shops, talk to people and accept a quest - the quest puts you in the middle of a volcano - your end goal is defeating the gigantic fire beast Ifrit - team up with a Goblin and Chocobo - fight multiple enemies, including some unfriendly Chocobo - enemies leave behind loot like recovery items and materials for crafting - by pressing L or R, you get access to four attacks - attack names include Plunder Slash, Mercurial Thrust and Trinity - charge a power meter and then hit L+R at the same time for special movies - one special lets you change into Cloud with very powerful attacks - run with the B - button - camera switching is handled by the D - Pad - info on the upper screen that gives you constant battle updates - bottom screen shows the status of all the characters, plus a map

The CosmicsLeaving OUtdoor Droplets (CLOUD) experiment at CERN indicates that GCR - induced ionization enhanceswater — sulphuric acid nucleation in the middle and upper troposphere, but is very unlikely to give asignificant contribution to nucleation taking place in the continental boundary layer (Kirkby et al., 2011).

(2) It made the point (not an original point, but on the other hand one that is not widely known even among the cognoscenti) that water vapour feedback in the global warming story is very largely determined by the response of water vapour in the middle and upper troposphere.

They get both the wealthy people who don't care too much about price and just want the best, and the more mainstream (well, upper - middle class...) buyers who will sacrifice a few features and some driving range to still get their hands on a very attractive and convenient (this is not Roadster) electric sedan.

Yeah, so it's sort of like whether you choose the criminal courts or the civil courts, Americans from poor people all the way up to upper middle class people just can not afford very much in the way of legal services.

So, for those in the upper middle class and upper class, a life insurance policy in the millions is very reasonable.

Parents» socio - economic level, measured by SES (Hollingshead, 1975), was middle to upper for 89 % of families; 9 % had a low socio - economic status and only 2 % reported a very high level.

While the middle market has been very active, the upper - end market has been a little slower to recover, but we should begin to see an increase in activity in this segment.

Shabby chic decorating was especially popular with modern Bohemians and artisans that made up a sidelined counter-culture movement during the 1980s when expensive, high quality room decor became very fashionable with the upper middle classes.