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mid·dle age
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n.
the period between early adulthood and old age, usually considered as the years from about 45 to 65.
DERIVATIVES:
mid·dle-aged
(also mid·dle-age) adj.
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middle east toy fair to open next march in dubai
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 2/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...that kids in the 0-4 year age group are the toy market sector...Messe Frankfurt, organisers of Middle East Toy Fair said, "Emerging...region, mainly from Dubai." Middle East Toy Fair is the only dedicated...market still stands here in the Middle East. Also tie in, that with...
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middle east region's massive mall expansion boosts sales of toys.
News Wire article from: Albawaba.com; 1/27/2008; 700+ words
; ...Schulz-Blank, Show Manager of Middle East Toy Fair. "Within the...Arabic Gulf states is under the age of 16 years and each family...Messe Frankfurt, organizer of Middle East Toy Fair which will take...Centre, has shown that the Middle East toy market is worth approximately...
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MIDDLE EAST: SEISMIC CHANGE IN MIDDLE EAST CONSUMER PATTERNS.(automobile industry)(Interview)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 7/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...manufacturers, in under a decade, the Middle East car market has well over...population is under 25 in many Middle Eastern countries. This has pumped demand. The coming of age of so many new drivers is felt...Second, many parts of the Middle East have experienced good economic...
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MIDDLE CLASS TASK FORCE HOLDS TOWN HALL MEETING ON RECOVERY ACT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/21/2009; 700+ words
; ...economic growth in recent years, the middle class has not gotten very far ahead...below, the real income of working-age, middle-class households actually fell...Reinvestment Act, or ARRA. The Middle Class Task Force released a staff...
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ARE MIDDLE SCHOOLS FAILING IN THEIR SPECIAL MISSION?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/26/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Many of us who go out to middle-grade schools see they do...she said, students at this age are capable of great intellectual...potential." The traditional middle school serves students in grades...for example, proposed moving middle-schoolers from K-8 schools...
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Middle Schools In Md. Find Advanced Math Is Right Formula; More Students Taking Courses and Succeeding
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/21/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...students taking Algebra I in middle school rose from 27 percent...algebraic concepts at an earlier age. In Frederick County, for...thought when they arrive at the middle school level," said Lois Roney...math specialist at New Market Middle School in Frederick County...
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Middle schools giving way to K-8 programs
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/12/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...officials expect about 8,750 middle school students, down about...planned to put more children of middle school age in kindergarten-through...make Audubon feel like a middle school. There's also a distinctive age-appropriate quality to...
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Middle grades configurations and small schools.(Report)
Magazine article from: Academic Exchange Quarterly; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...wholesale remodeling of their elementary and middle level school structure. Middle school advocates claim that only middle schools and their teachers are equipped to address the students' needs at this age (Weiss & Kipnes, 2006), while...
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Middle school dropout rate up.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 6/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...student will turn 16 in the middle school grades. Older students...order to advance them to their age-appropriate grade, she said...youth; The number of Boston middle schoolers dropping out has skyrocketed...five years. (Bar graphs) * Middle school dropouts ** 1995: 37...
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Middle school a challenge to the system.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...director for the Mid South Middle Start Initiative based in...general is declining for most age groups, but is rising for...the project The Mid South Middle Start Initiative is designed to help the region's middle-level schools improve education...
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Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...Near East. Persia and Iraq were the Middle East." Despite the tacit acceptance...Mediterranean (or of Spain). In the Middle Ages, the favored term was outremer...that the earliest reference to "Middle East" occurs in Alfred Thayer Mahan...
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middle
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
middle at an equal distance from the extremities of something. Middle Ages the period of European history from the fall of the...1453), or, more narrowly, from c. 1000 to 1453. Middle America the middle class in the United States, especially...
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Middle Eastern Countries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
...young industries. Oil in the Middle East is a national property...countries. The generous old-age benefit programs in some of...5 million inhabitants of the Middle East. Turkey has enjoyed a...than women elsewhere in the Middle East, women in the Turkish...
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France and the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...1950s and early 1960s. French Entry into the Middle East Antithetical undercurrents were never...the modern history of Franco – Middle Eastern relations. While the Franks of the Middle Ages had vigorously embraced Europe's Roman...
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Middle Ages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Middle Ages period in Western European history that...productivity, and population expansion. The High Middle Ages As Europe entered the period known as the High Middle Ages, the church became the universal...
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