Thus, by choosing to study pharmacy, they seek to maintain middle-class status.
The education and credentials that were once hallmarks of middle class status are now more widely accessible than ever (thanks in part to an economic order increasingly premised on the vast and uncontrolled expansion of personal debt), but those credentials are also less tied to securing or maintaining middle class jobs than ever before.
He'll maintain Middle Eastern wars but work with Russia on global nuclear disarmament.
The country's many colleges help Syria maintain a middle class that is sizable by regional standards.
The challenge for every developed and developing society is how do you maintain a middle class in such a world.
Since then, the knock on AARP has been that it has tried to maintain a middle ground so it would not be closely identified with either party.
Sharif also faced increasing opposition as he attempted to maintain the middle path between the Islamic right wing and the social democrats.
To maintain a middle class these days may take substantial government intervention, either in the form of trade barriers, a generous welfare state, or an extraordinarily aggressive effort to boost skill levels.
Jean Paul was opposed to Goethe and Schiller as well as to the Romantics, and with his humour he tried to maintain a middle path between the opposing schools of literature.
A1 NATIONAL A8-9; 12 PreSaysNo Says No To Anthem in Spanish While President Bush has tried to maintain a middle ground in the hot debate over immigration, he signaled that he stands with conservatives on a cultural dividing point: the Spanish version of the national anthem, a new touchstone of the immigrants-rights movement.
It's true that states are facing serious fiscal problems, crises in some cases, but a much bigger threat to America as we've known it is the increasing inability of hard-working men and women to earn enough to maintain a middle class standard of living, even as the corporate sector is thriving.
