And while that may sound like a great deal for the middle class, the harsh reality is that most middle class taxpayers do not earn meaningful amounts of dividends and long-term capital gains.
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Like most Middle Eastern deserts, the Negev is usually associated with sand, rock and the odd camel.
Most middle-class families can get this system without shelling out a huge amount of cash.
Most middle-class parents can't afford a few hundred bucks a week for a private preschool.
The complete absence of a black middle class allowed most advertisers to ignore black tastes and aspirations.
By the late Middle Ages, most of Europe was thriving under this arrangement.
Their pretext was one with which most Middle Eastern dictators would sympathise: security.
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Almost as many (62%) agreed most middle class families could achieve it.
In the rest of the Middle East, most women don a veil of one kind or another, though almost none wears the burqa.
Additionally, most Middle East air carriers, including Turkish Airlines, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines and Emirates Airlines, have not discontinued service so far.
Finally, are those who do not believe the dream, whether material or spiritual, can be lived by themselves or by most middle class Americans.
Most Middle Eastern leaders, like the "Foro" which defines oppression in a one-sided way, views democracy as being secondary, and ignore the rule of law.
Among most middle-class Iraqis the voice of Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a champion when he deigns to utter political thoughts of peaceful elections, counts for more than Mr al-Sadr's.
Although vehicles like the big Jeep Grand Cherokee have some appeal in places like China and the Middle East, most foreign buyers are looking for something more modest.
For all the flaws in India's democratic system, however, most middle-class Indians remain proud that their country can claim to be a rare democracy in the third world.
If they want to receive extra benefits beyond what most middle income families get, they should pay for it themselves, not have tax payers foot the bill for them.
Notwithstanding the speculation during the campaign that Obama would do poorly with the Jewish community because of his positions on the Middle East, most American Jews voted for him.
The Qabala radar facility in the north of Azerbaijan is leased by the Russian military and can scan the Indian Ocean, the Middle East and most of North Africa.
The tragic fact is that most middle-market investors are stuck with brokers and agents who are more interested in earning commissions and often churning accounts needlessly to generate them.
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And this is after a decade when, for most middle-class families, incomes actually shrank and wages flat-lined, and the only thing rising faster was medical costs and the cost of education.
In fact, on most Middle Eastern issues Islamism, democratisation, the danger of Iranian nuclear weapons the two countries still have similar goals, although expansion of settlements in the West Bank is an obvious exception.
Our poll taken a week ago showed 49.7% believing the dream was achievable for their families, 30% saying it did not exist and 44% agreeing it is achievable for most middle class families.
And finally, we know that even with better high schools, if you want a good job and work your way into the middle class, most young people are going to need some higher education.
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He has put his experience behind him and is back into doing his job of reporting on the Middle East, most recently he travelled to Iran and the Lebanon to cover the elections there.
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Though the big shopping budgets of many Chinese tourists are sustaining the growth of the luxury-goods industry, the bus tours that escort most middle-class Chinese tourists in Europe usually book them into budget motels on the outskirts of Paris.
Some of the best birding spots turn out to be smack in the middle of the most peopled places, like Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and New York's Central Park, where well over 200 of America's 750 bird species pass each spring and fall as they migrate.
Most Middle East analysts make two fundamental errors: They have a static perspective that simply extends the present into the future in a straight line, and they tend to focus on Egypt, where one-quarter of the Arab League lives, while ignoring the North African and Gulf states where important changes are underway.
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" And what Klein describes as a "shabby, nondescript building" which lacked any "major public security presence" was, according to an unnamed Middle Eastern security official, "routinely used by Stevens and others to coordinate with the Turkish, Saudi and Qatari governments on supporting the insurgencies in the Middle East, most prominently the rebels opposing Assad's regime in Syria.
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