Word: middleclass
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...Fuxing Road in western Beijing is a vast Soviet-style building that proudly houses jets, tanks and ships - all memorials to the military conflicts faced by the People's Republic of China. But just around the corner, in a typical middleclass housing complex, is an unwelcome reminder of how the country manages its political conflicts...
...conflict has contributed to riotous clashes at school-board meetings whenever the sex-education curriculums come up for review. Last year, for example, when New York City developed a program designed to help combat a runaway rate of teenage pregnancy, religious groups presented a list of 56 objections. In middleclass San Juan Capistrano, Calif., the fray over sex-education reform grew so heated last spring that conservative opponents showed up at a school-board meeting dressed in Revolutionary War garb and bearing a cannon...
...Metroland, Chris, a middleclass office employee living outside of London, has made this type of choice, and has now reached the stage where he has a pretty good idea of what the rest of his life will be like. Although it is set in 1977 and refers to the rebellious rhetoric of the '60s, the film tells a story that has a place in every generation. The situation presented to the audience demands sympathy and recognition. With the versatile Christian Bale as Chris and Oscar nominee Emily Watson as his levelheaded wife Marion, Metroland delivers a refreshing and insightful examination...
...centerpiece of Forbes' plan is still the 17 percent flat tax that he touted in the 1996 presidential race. He said yesterday the flat tax would preserve exemptions most favorable to middleclass families...
Stanford, Yale and Princeton have followedthese traditional policies to a decrease in middleclass enrollment in recent years--a slippage whichall three say caused their changes in aid policy...