Those falling somewhere in the middle include the UK, Italy and France.
People who got caught in the middle included the elderly, children, passing soccer fans, and reporters, Akhavi said.
The coalition beat back a bizarre series of attempts to torpedo the bill from the left, the right and the middle, including proposals to exempt veterans, senior citizens or gun owners from its provisions.
But they also see their constituency as the middle to upper middle class, including the owners of small and medium-sized businesses.
Countries ranking in the middle include Japan, Germany, the UK and the United States.
For the company seeking to outsource development work, they benefit from the vetting a reputable agency provides, and the fact that YouTeam sits in the middle, including taking payment and handling any disputes.
"A lot of other countries have got great big public-sector technology organisations sitting in the middle, including organisations like Nasa.
"We first broke up the classic round instruments back in 2015 so we could add more digital content to the middle, including advanced driving assistance systems," one of BMW's designers told me.
A number of key events occur in Africa during the middle Pleistocene including the disappearance of the Acheulian, the appearance of the Middle Stone Age, and the emergence of modern Homo sapiens.
Other revenue-raising measures, however, affected the middle class, including the scrapping of tax allowances for retirees — a change that was quickly labeled the granny tax — and the snack-food levy, perhaps forevermore known as the pasty tax.
