New York City, for example, has the smallest share of middle-income families in the nation, according to a recent Brookings Institution study; its proportion of middle-income neighborhoods was smaller than that of any metropolitan area except Los Angeles.The same pattern has also emerged in what has become widely touted as America's "model city"–President Obama's adopted hometown of Chicago.
The increased emphasis on the recognition by physicians of suicidality in primary care patients has become an often touted tool for preventing suicides.
By 1885, Smith had become one of the most touted gamblers in Pittsburgh and had won over $100,000 without ever seeing a horse race run firsthand.
This event is still held every year, but to New Yorkers used to partying hard in the name of charity, the Party of the Year had in recent years become just another tedious, over-touted soiree.
Planning to cut ties with its oil-rich neighbour is a challenging geopolitical endeavour, but it is just one part of Poland's much-touted plan to become energy independent.
Likening the contemporary moment in India to the Gilded Age in the United States, the author asks whether the much-touted democratic system has indeed become yet another hurdle for the country.
Though the one-on-one connections are still there on mobile, if customers never actually speak with their stylists personally, but only message them quickly through the app, Trunk Club's long-touted "human touch" could easily become watered down.
But it didn't, allowing Kite to become the first of the tour's much-touted new threesome -- Watson and Lanny Wadkins are the others -- to win a major championship as a senior.
In a world which growth has become elusive even for Asian "tigers," entrepreneurship has become a widely touted path to economic salvation.
That even seniors remain saddled with student loans highlights what a growing chorus of lawmakers, economists and financial experts say has become a central conflict in the nation's higher education system: The long-touted benefits of a college degree are being diluted by rising tuition rates and the longevity of debt.
