As the fat part of the bell curve of income inequality moves beyond the middle-class threshold, huge Numbers are lifted out of poverty. Yet many of them are still perilously close to the borderline.

收入不平等的正态分布曲线最大的一部分从中产阶级底线中移开，由此，大量中产阶级摆脱了贫困，尽管如此，十分靠近边界的也不在少数。

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Paradoxically, the alleged affair added rather than subtracted from his already iconic status, introducing a dash of devilry and rescuing Beckham from a kind of borderline piousness, and perhaps issuing a reminder that, despite all the affectations, his manhood was beyond doubt.

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