In other words, their sense of loss is disproportionate to their gains under the new dispensation.
Seeing their gains under threat, they clashed with the army and pro-establishment demonstrators numerous times to safeguard their votes.
Having driven forward many of Thatcherism's gains under Tony Blair, it is constrained by timid leadership, by a lack of clear vision and new ideas.
Fourteen states asked the Bush administration on Wednesday for permission to use alternative methods for showing academic gains under the No Child Left Behind law.
The article by Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith points to the elimination of taxes on capital gains under $500,000 in 1997, which is a very good point.
Research on merit pay, she said, shows that student achievement is "a product of a lot of different variables," including developmental ones, and that any gains under merit pay plans had proved to be sporadic and short-term.
Three-quarters of the gains under the change will go to better-off households within the threshold, with the wealthiest 10% gaining £87 a year and the poorest 10% gaining on average £6 a year.
Today's protest included not only fighting but also bitter statements against the Catholics, who were once a minority discriminated against, but who have made some gains under the province's power-sharing government.
The states, including Alaska, California and Connecticut, said that schools showing academic gains under their statewide system should escape the failing designation under the federal law, even if that progress falls short of the law's requirements.
According to the Journal article, more than seventy per cent of Bain Capital's investment gains under Romney came from just ten of its investments, which turned out very well.
More than 100 local authorities will see gains under the new formula – with the 10 lowest-funded local authorities gaining on average 3.6% – while almost 50 will see cuts to their funding.
