"It's not easy," he said, but resist the urge to keep up with the Joneses, as "the Joneses are broke."
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Everyone in the world, it seems, wants to keep up with the Joneses — or at least with the images they see on the Joneses' Instagram and Pinterest accounts.
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But at home, they were the Joneses (Bowie's given name).
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There's a solid chance the Joneses can't actually afford their lifestyle.
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Francis advises players against trying to keep up with the Joneses.
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But I feel this pressure of keeping up with the Joneses.
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"We tell them not to worry about the Joneses," said West.
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Moving In With The Joneses Jughead's mom bought the Cooper hell house.
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"Keeping up with the Joneses" might not be such a bad idea.
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It's not just a "keeping up with the Joneses" kind of thing.
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And we went because we wanted to keep up with the Joneses.
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For sure those moments flowered into some Johnny Cashes, some Doug Joneses.
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Ignore the Joneses and keep your eye on your own financial future.
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"It is the opposite of Keeping up with the Joneses" D'Acunto said.
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Keeping up with the Joneses is now keeping up with the Kardashians.
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Instead of "keeping up with the Joneses"-style peer pressure, there's digital FOMO.
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Keeping up with the Joneses is not the only reason for military involvement.
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The feed was becoming a digital game of keeping up with the Joneses.
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You can't go keeping up with the Joneses to make them like you.
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Instead of keeping up with the Joneses, we're keeping up with the Jetsons.
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For some people that's a motivating factor in keeping up with the Joneses.
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Look for projects that keep you in line with the Joneses, said Hicks.
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This couple had fallen into the trap of keeping up with the Joneses.
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After putting the Joneses aside, your own personal goals come into better focus.
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Keeping up with the Joneses can be the downfall to truly getting rich.
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But changing "JONES" to "JONESES" felt like it broke a tight theme pattern.
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Nevertheless, she doesn't feel any pressure to keep up with the young Joneses.
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On Wednesday, the Joneses returned to their destroyed home in awe of the damage.
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The Ducks were the Joneses and everyone else was simply trying to keep up.
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Because keeping up with the home sale Joneses can feel like a second job.
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Doing so, they say, can legitimize black markets, and embolden real-life Indiana Joneses.
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Millennials are just as likely to compare themselves to the Joneses as anyone else.
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"Keeping up with the Joneses, which many of us can relate to," Klontz said.
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BEN KENIGSBERG "Keeping Up With the Joneses" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned).
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You already know the obvious application of peer pressure: Keeping up with the Joneses.
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Keeping up with the Joneses, or the Jhas in this case, is just silly.
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And around and around it goes, a vicious cycle of keeping up with the Joneses.
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This is just one of the ways Tinder is keeping up with the Joneses, a.k.a.
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Social media exacerbates the "Keeping up with the Joneses" affliction many of us suffer from.
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That is, we get additional satisfaction from having more house than the Joneses next door.
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"FOMO spending," or the modern-day version of "keeping up with the Joneses," is tempting.
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If you stay away from trends, you don't have to keep changing with the Joneses.
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This is what keeping up with the Joneses looks like these days for megawatt art collectors.
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The Joneses further disrupted the idyllic stereotype by injecting a measure of black radicalism into it.
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We make little sacrifices, and we try to resist the pressure to keep up with the Joneses.
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"This idea of keeping up with the Joneses became keeping up with the Kardashians," Ms Greenfield says.
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The Mitchums bestow upon the Joneses a new car and a light-up playground for Sonny Jim.
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While the Joneses of the conspiracy world have backed off, the diehards are still going full bore.
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This is petty cash for the Joneses now, and it's savvy money-exchanging on Janey-E's part.
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Social media has brought the desire to "keep up with the Joneses" to a whole new level.
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HARWOOD: This fall, do you want to see more Doug Joneses elected to the House and Senate?
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That is the concern for the Joneses and others along the 303-mile planned route of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a $4.6 billion natural gas pipeline that would run from West Virginia to Virginia, according to Mia Yugo, an attorney representing the Joneses and 11 others in a lawsuit.
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Whether they're keeping up with the Joneses or keeping up with the Kardashians, Americans have become big spenders.
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Keeping up with the Joneses used to mean matching the (often environmentally destructive) conspicuous consumption of one's neighbours.
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Her résumé includes Triple 9, Date Night, Criminal, Keeping Up With the Joneses, and multiple Fast & Furious movies.
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"Keeping up with the Joneses" is beside the point and a terrible compass for doing the right thing.
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Mostly, though, the High Line seems like a keeping-up-with-the-Joneses type of showcase for whimsy.
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I'd watch an action movie in which they thirst for thrift, Indiana Joneses looking for a Gaultier grail.
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The pressure of keeping up with the Joneses can lead Henrys into buying homes they can&apost afford.
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"That's when you need the Conors of the world — the Brock Lesnars, even the Jon Joneses," Zelaznik said.
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Forget keeping up with the Joneses, the agility dogs at Westminster had to try to keep up with Jonesy.
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The event was ideal for the Joneses, who chose to dedicate their lives to cats instead of having children.
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But when the South went Republican, after Lyndon Johnson ended segregation in 1964, most of the Joneses went too.
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Resist the temptation to keep up with the Joneses "Question the things you're spending your money on," says Sean.
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RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES "Question the things you're spending your money on," says Sean.
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"We were keeping up with the Joneses, but we were going against Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes," Pratt said.
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You get to meet THE JONESES you've been trying to keep up with for all these years at 56A.
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Stop buying things to impress other peopleKeeping up with the "Joneses" is not only financially straining — it&aposs impossible.
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"[My dad] was twice widowed," the Keeping Up With the Joneses star said in the November 2016 issue of Elle.
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Even in our middle class neighborhood, I felt like we were hiding that we couldn't keep up with the Joneses.
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The lists of Sandra Blands, Christian Taylors, Samuel Duboses, Aaron Campbells, Quintonio Legriers, and Bettie Joneses is numbing, sickening, terrifying.
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That's the situation the Joneses found themselves in, when Mike's two daughters decided to film their "Whip Whip/Nae Nae" routine.
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"Millennials tend to be a little more self-aware, more confident and less about keeping up with the Joneses," he said.
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Keeping up with the Joneses' spending decisions is an example, as is pressure from a spouse, family, friends, or work colleagues.
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Related Links: The Money M.O. Quiz Keeping Up With The Joneses Money Profile 5 Things Every Over-Spender Should Do Now
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Knowing what you value the most is a great antidote to comparison and the urge to keep up with the Joneses.
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"We were keeping up with the Joneses, but we were going against Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes," Spencer tells PEOPLE exclusively.
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But Goldman Sachs CFO Martin Chavez, who has a long history in the technology sector, is keeping up with the Joneses.
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Early on, Adeney realized that the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses mindset was more likely to keep him broke than happy.
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That was the environment the Joneses entered into when they settled in the province, and they quickly took on the issues.
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Social interaction: Hanging out with the Joneses Social interaction certainly boosts quality of life, and it can boost other things, too.
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If you're feeling a need to keep up with the Joneses, remember that the images depicted in commercials aren't always realistic.
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In Keeping Up With the Joneses, Isla Fisher kisses Gal Gadot to momentarily distract the straight, male criminals in the room.
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" SAP SE: "I have to tell you, I think [the Qualtrics deal] is one of those 'Keeping Up with the Joneses' situations.
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And when it comes to a mission this forgettable, the Joneses might not be the only ones tempted to use an alias.
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Trying to keep up with the Joneses is a habit that will limit your financial growth, or worse, send you into debt.
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Keeping up with the Joneses, or trying to live up to your friends' and neighbors' standards, is a tempting, but expensive, habit.
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Americans may be trying to keep up with the Joneses, but the merely rich are trying to keep up with the Teppers.
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Follow Buffett's way of life, and you could potentially have a higher net worth than people who keep up with the Joneses.
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Keeping up with the Joneses, or trying to live up to your friends' and neighbors' standards, is a tempting but expensive habit.
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"We were keeping up with the Joneses, but we were going against Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes," Pratt told People in 2016.
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The police did not allow journalists near the Joneses' house on Monday, and the couple were said to be staying with relatives.
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But for a few minutes, I was a Ford man, peer of the rich and fabulous, literally keeping up with the Joneses.
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So rather than worry about how to keep up with the Joneses regarding millennials, why not just become a better hiring manager?
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Related Links: The Money M.O. Quiz Keeping Up With The Joneses Money Profile Your Quick & Easy Guide To Paying Down Credit Card Debt
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"People post the best versions of themselves and then others want to keep up with the e-Joneses on social media," says Woroch.
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Together, Williams and Nyberg are like the Indiana Joneses of plant conservation, leading the crusade to preserve Hawaii's most distinct — and endangered — plants.
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Rather than trying to keep up with the Joneses, figure out what really makes you happy and only spend what you need to.
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Is it so bad he broke onto the Joneses' property to steal back his car, threatening the possibility of a multi-sided gang war?
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Trouble is, the Joneses are no different, and when they too work harder to fund their own bigger house, our relative satisfaction gain disappears.
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For him, the key to saving money started with changing his mentality and realizing that he didn't need to keep up with the Joneses.
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"AT&T is trying to keep up with the Joneses," said Robert Salomon, a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business.
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But the thing that kept his momentum going was shifting his mindset and realizing that he didn't need to keep up with the Joneses.
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Ms. Tomei, an Academy Award winner for "My Cousin Vinny," has appeared in four previous Broadway plays, most recently "The Realistic Joneses" in 2014.
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I wrote Jean of the Joneses, my first film, while I was in school and kind of just got into directing out of necessity.
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This pressure to keep up with the Joneses can also be affected by lifestyle creep, the tendency to spend more whenever one earns more.
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It's hard to describe just how much looking around and keeping-up-with-the-Joneses sort of thinking happens within the halls of Congress.
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Consider what makes you happy, and ignore the rush to keep up with Joneses or Kardashians or whoever is leading the endless race these days.
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More recent sales have been instrumental in modernizing the stadium in a way that has allowed Green Bay to keep up with the NFL joneses.
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In that regard, "Meteor Shower" may remind you of other sour-amusing comedies, like "The Realistic Joneses" and "The Open House," both by Will Eno.
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" Another neighbor, Rick Worth, 46, said the Joneses "weren't the kinds of people that would complain about their children or the teenagers they looked after.
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" The latter Jones said, "The explosion of social media, the fact that it empowers the Alex E. Joneses of the world, that's a big problem.
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For many carmakers, especially those that offer vehicles with sporting pretensions, paddle shifters are sort of the automotive equivalent of keeping up with the Joneses.
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So, in the spirit of keeping up with the sale-throwing Joneses, we're cataloging the big home scores you don't want to miss right here.
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And it's never been harder to keep up with the Joneses, because today we are constantly bombarded with seemingly perfect images of other peoples' lives.
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Parents also reported feeling more gift-giving stress, with 54 percent feeling the need to keep up with the Joneses versus 42 percent of non-parents.
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Hopefully, putting a boundary on Instagram will help me sleep better, be more present, and lessen the weight I feel to keep up with the Joneses.
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It quickly went from a question of, "is it keeping up with the Joneses" to something very endearing, no matter how quirky it may come across.
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KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Not being outshone by the neighbors was always hard, even before the title phrase came into common use a century ago.
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"They are more aware of what their peers are doing" he added, and "it creates a little bit of the 'keeping up with the Joneses' effect."
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Producer Jason Morris and photojournalist Joel De La Rosa helped bring Elmore's wife, JoAnn, and Pam Jones on the boat, along with the elder Joneses' two dogs.
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During the ET interview, the Mad Men star also took the time to praise Wonder Woman, which stars his Keeping up with the Joneses costar Gal Gadot.
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"Perhaps these state legislatures feel like they've been left behind in some way—it almost has a Keeping Up with the Joneses feel to it," Nash said.
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Most of us can't keep up with the Trumps, but he may be inducing some of us to be more focused on keeping up with the Joneses.
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Imagine if we said, " To heck with the Joneses," and drove that smart Honda Civic to the ground instead of buying a new one every few years.
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If you racked up debt in college — whether student loans, personal loans or credit card balances — pay off those debts before trying to keep up with the Joneses.
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" Resist the urge to keep up with the Joneses, he encourages: "Ignoring the expectations of others is probably the most important obstacle in the path to uncommon wealth.
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And while the rest of the world may be trying to keep up with her, Kim Kardashian is nothing if not one to keep up with the Joneses.
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"One of the temptations is to keep up with the Joneses and to outsize our lifestyle and go incrementally higher and higher on what we buy," Kirkpatrick says.
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For the now-31-year-old, the key to saving money started with shifting his mindset and realizing that he didn't need to keep up with the Joneses.
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The Joneses have been hanging out as a family this week in NY -- even Cardinals star Chandler Jones is there -- and there's a lot of combat going on.
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The more weddings they go to, and the more they see what other people are doing, the more they feel they need to be better than the Joneses.
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Nearly one in four Smiths are black, as are about one in three Johnsons and Browns, nearly four in 10 Joneses and nearly half the people named Williams.
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This wasn't a "keeping up with the Joneses" effect where they sped up spending and reduced saving to keep up with their peers: their savings, if anything, increased.
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But none of this seems to have jumpstarted Twitter's user growth or revenue, which goes to show that finding and highlighting the Joneses of the world isn't easy.
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This means that most farmers need to produce more food and become more automated if they want to keep up with the Joneses — or just stay on the farm.
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That idea — that we've gone from keeping up with the Joneses to keeping up with the Kardashians — understanding that made them a much more powerful signifier in my work.
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" And when politicians see counterparts getting attention and earning political capital for their heartbeat bills, it can become a matter of "keeping up with the Joneses and jockeying for position.
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" Adds Spencer: "We were keeping up with the Joneses but we were going up against Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes when we should have stayed in our reality TV lane.
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Stella Meghie's Jean of the Joneses, a hit at the SXSW and Toronto Film Festivals before finding its way to TV One, was one of the year's great unheralded gems.
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Call it "keeping up with the Joneses" or just plain vain behavior, but the history of mankind will always be littered with attempts to appear cooler than the next guy.
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The school district updated the dress code policy Thursday morning, after the incident, with the Joneses to add that "leggings" are not allowed for being too "revealing," according to Fox4.
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Amazon, of course, doesn't make its own PC hardware or operating system, so partnering up would help it keep up with the Joneses without venturing too far beyond its core competencies.
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His family opened the state's legendary Skylight Inn more than 70 years ago, and in the decades since, several generations of Joneses have downright perfected the art of whole hog 'cue.
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As if they're not beautiful enough on their own, Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot are teaming up and starring as a couple in the upcoming film Keeping Up with the Joneses.
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Cunningham is a firm believer that this is the way that everyone will keep up with the Joneses, who are trying to keep up with everyone, who're keeping up with them.
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The Alex Joneses, Ben Shapiros, and Fox Newses of the world couldn't profit from extremism unless there were some underlying predisposition of angry old white guys to listen to this stuff.
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Americans have long been taught to reach to keep up with the Joneses, that paying more means getting more and moving up the societal ladder on the way to the elite class.
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But if you're really serious about your listening experience, you need a pair of headphones that truly keep up — not ones purchased solely for the purpose of keeping up with the Joneses.
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The Joneses, she alleges, repeatedly abused Adrian, making him stand outside in a pool of stagnant water overnight and making him hold tiki torches over his head for long periods of time.
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The Joneses later divorced, but Ms. Jones remained committed to the cause, helping to found a number of organizations focused on race-related issues and speaking out when she found it necessary.
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And though she has no problem making the correction, the 41-year-old Keeping Up with the Joneses star decided to play along with one confused fan by the name of Lady Gaga.
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Their on-time performance is also at a record high, and lost baggage and the number of bumped passengers are dropping dramatically as a result of having to keep up with the Joneses.
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The new psychological race to keep up with the Joneses is relentlessly documenting the bliss from fancy vacations, newly acquired possessions, and parties with friends, with the rest of life largely edited out.
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So while you may seem to have the more sensible outlook on what's worth spending your money on, a world with zero frivolity, splurging or performing for the Joneses just sounds depressingly blah.
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When traveling, we're in a unique environment where we're free to focus solely on our business and avoid feeling pressured to "keep up with the Joneses" — or, in our case, our prior lifestyle.
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"If you're hanging out with people who are constantly spending money, constantly keeping up with the Joneses, guess what — that's going to have a big impact on your bottom line as well," Torabi says.
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So even before you consider the IP and technical know-how that Facebook is picking up in MSQRD, acquiring the startup is interesting in that wider strategy simply to keep up with the Joneses.
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On Saturday, the police cordoned off the Joneses' home in Sunbury-on-Thames and briefly evacuated the area around the house, warning neighbors that explosive materials might be in the house and its garden.
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"It's a real problem — those social media images end up serving as yard sticks that people can compare themselves to, and a perfectionist is always trying to keep up with the Joneses," Sherry said.
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The book revolves around two families in London — the Iqbals, an immigrant couple from Bangladesh who have twin sons; and the Joneses, an Englishman married to a Jamaican woman, who have a daughter together.
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Whether it comes to having a fulfilling career, a partner you can indulge in cheesy Insta-habits with, or the most obvious one—money—it's human nature to want to keep up with the Joneses.
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That tidbit of info actually makes a lot of sense, considering that F.P. (Skeet Ulrich) did just reveal that Hiram (Mark Consuelos) had promised him a penthouse apartment large enough to fit all of the Joneses.
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That is what happened to "Keeping Up With the Joneses," a poorly reviewed comedy starring Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher that cost 20th Century Fox about $40 million to make and collected a disastrous $5.6 million.
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One way to end the scourge of "TV is better than film" articles is to stop making movies like "Keeping Up With the Joneses," a pedestrian comedy that almost seems intended as evidence for the cause.
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If the Saints want to feed him all game to put the record far out of reach of the Julio Joneses and DeAndre Hopkinses of the world, there is nothing Carolina could do to stop them.
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" Thinking through your purchases will help you refrain from shelling out more than you should to "keep up with the Joneses," he says: "Just because your friends enjoy spending lavishly on clothes, doesn't mean that's for you.
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Adrian's grandmother, Judy Conway, told PEOPLE that the Joneses repeatedly abused Adrian, making him stand outside in a pool of stagnant water overnight and making him hold tiki torches over his head for long periods of time.
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Meanwhile, the use of eminent domain for private projects that are said to fulfill some public good remains relatively new, but legal experts say it has resulted in a spate of legal battles such as the Joneses'.
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At the same time, Us stresses that the Wilsons — with their white frenemies, college sweatshirts, and secondhand boat — are active participants in suburbanite striving, dedicated to keeping up with the Joneses and pushing their children to be standouts.
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Jeff and Karen get drawn into the intrigue -- the former in a constant state of panic, the latter oddly warming to it -- while the Joneses aren't entirely immune from having Jeff's corporate counseling skills rub off on them.
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"To me, this BB&T merger of equals with SunTrust is about keeping up with the Joneses — in this case, keeping up with the Wells Fargos, the J.P. Morgans and especially the Bank of Americas, " he told investors.
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"To me, this BB&T merger of equals with SunTrust is about keeping up with the Joneses — in this case, keeping up with the Wells Fargos, the J.P. Morgans and especially the Bank of Americas, " he told investors.
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In 1994, after police records of the surveillance of the Joneses and others from the 1960s and '70s became public, the police commissioner, Philip Murray, issued an apology for racist language that had been used in those records.
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A fantasy adventure that invites children to become little Indiana Joneses, "Pip's Island," which opened for a limited New York run in December 529, is now back for an open-ended stay in an even more elaborate production.
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So the thing that looks ... many folks have said, and I think they're right, that you have created a playbook for the Breitbarts, the Bannons, the Alex Joneses of the world, and they're taking a page from you.
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But amid all the side-eyeing on social media and keeping up with the Joneses, it's easy to forget there's a wealth of free movie resources that do indeed exist—you just need to know where to find them.
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While Hamm seemed very nonchalant about this whole thing, we suggest the actor, who stars as a spy in Keeping Up With The Joneses with Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot, bring those hero skills to the big screen ASAP.
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There are many families that want to raise kids on one income, or one income and some part-time work, and instead find themselves pressured, financially and culturally, to keep up with the dual-earning Smith-Joneses next door.
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The organization the Joneses helped found amid that ferment, the Black United Front, adopted the radicalized language of the Black Panthers and similar groups and in the ensuing decades took on housing and employment discrimination, police brutality and more.
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I feel like it was such a long stretch of writing alone in a room and applying for fellowships and and just trying to break through to — fast forward to 2015 — getting the money for Jean of the Joneses.
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Keeping up with the Joneses has become Keeping up with the Kardashians, and the American Dream has morphed from an attainable goal, the result of hard work, to a fantasy way of life characterized by self-indulgence, celebrity, and narcissism.
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If you don't want to buy a really expensive computer, buy the PS VR. It's definitely not the best headset, but the price is right and you won't have to worry about keeping up with GPU Joneses with periodic system upgrades.
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I was able to save so much while making so little because I did my best to minimize bad choices, like trying to keep up with the New York Joneses, and maximize good fortune, like an inheritance from my grandmother.
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The etymology is probably from heroin users, who referred to the drug as "Harry Jones," rather than the more suburban "keeping up with the Joneses," where your addictions are to better cars and fancier holiday decorations than those of your neighbors.
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But if the schism between the Joneses is indicative, the Mueller probe will not be the final word on questions about Trump's dealings with Russia and the issue may continue to play out as Trump's re-election bid heats up.
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As long as you are living a life within your means that makes you happy, there's no purpose in keeping up with the Joneses, who, hey, may being using a hefty Instagram filter to paint a prettier picture than reality.
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Two notable ones that reinforce the company's approach to relationships: Those decisions are meant to reinforce Snap's identity as a place to connect meaningfully with your friends and family, not a place where you need to keep up with the Joneses.
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That decision would lead her to write and direct three films: Jean of the Joneses (2016), The Weekend (2018), and 2017's Everything, Everything — the latter of which starred Amandla Stenberg and went on to win a Teen Choice Award for Drama.
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That's the unmistakable color of the Joneses' door in their cookie-cutter Las Vegas subdivision; and it's the color of the shoes that Janey-E's wearing when she slowly realizes that the new version of her old husband has become sexually desirable.
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"This is a very British area, it's not often you see people from other ethnicities, so I'm sure the boys the Joneses took in had a hard time fitting in," Tom Randall, who was drinking at the Running Horse Pub, said on Monday.
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It's not about impressing or keeping up with the Joneses by serving coq au vin and fussing over cocktails all night — it's about keeping it simple and low-stress, making do with what you have, and enjoying the company of the friends you love.
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Rather than chasing more material possessions or "keeping up with the Joneses," Wallman says that giving back to your community through volunteering is one way to make your social status more meaningful, and make you feel like you're playing an active role in society.
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" If, in its latest incarnation, "Thom Pain" seems to have shed its ability to shock, that's partly because we have had a chance to become accustomed to the skewed perspective of Mr. Eno, whose later, fuller works include "The Realistic Joneses" and "The Open House.
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I then further constrained my theme by getting rid of phrases with articles, prepositions, and conjunctions such as LIVE UP TO THE HYPE and KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES, although I did make an exception with the colorful KISS AND MADE UP theme entry.
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Multiple outlets have speculated that the Joneses would prefer to let Garrett's contract run out rather than fire the coach, who has been on the Cowboys' coaching staff since 2007 and spent seven years on their roster as a backup quarterback in the 1990s.
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Directed by Greg Mottola ("Superbad") from a script by Michael LeSieur, "Keeping Up With the Joneses" does offer Hamm a chance to show off his lighter side, while Gadot demonstrates she can do the same in a role where she's spared from donning a costume and tiara.
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Materialism is a big problem in the U.S. The idea of "keeping up with the Joneses" or the idea that one must have the newest of everything in order to be happy can be easily observed in the media and maybe even in your personal life.
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The larger the lottery reward a lucky gambler collects, the more likely his or her neighbors are to file for bankruptcy, according to a new working paper from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve that sought to find analytical backing for the "keeping up with the Joneses" theory.
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Helicopter parents focus on their children's success in societal terms, on beating the Joneses; free-rangers want their children to be strong, self-determined, at peace, what we used to call self-actualized, even if later on they don't make a lot of money or win awards.
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The digital desire to keep up with the Joneses adds an interesting jolt of class tension to Animal Crossing, and as I started earmarking ever more elaborate furniture to buy, I stumbled on an island bedecked with some of the most expensive items in the game.
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SoftBank has hundreds of billions to invest; private equity firms are beginning to look at growth-stage companies the way that I look at banana cream pies from Cassell's; and venture firms are beefing up big time to keep up with the Joneses (or in this case, the Blackstoneses).
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"Crisis acting" is now a term that's constantly bandied about by the Alex Joneses of the world and has been used to explain away terrorist attacks such as the Boston Marathon bombing and the Bataclan Nightclub shooting, as well as most mass shooting events in the United States.
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Love is one of the most powerful emotions a human being can feel, and yet, we still live in an individualistic society of keeping up with the Joneses: We forge ahead with our business ventures and strategically plan our career paths in hopes of finding fame and fortune.
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HBCUs need these games to stay in Division I, but as Taylor wrote for Inside Higher Ed, they are paying a high price in order to Not Actually Keep Up with the Joneses: For many under-resourced colleges, guarantee games have become the preferred means of generating quick revenue.
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The jittery postwar era, with its backyard bomb shelters and suburban fears about keeping up with the Joneses, gave rise to a boom in sedatives, as seen in the era's pop songs ("Mother's Little Helper," by the Rolling Stones) and best sellers ("Valley of the Dolls," by Jacqueline Susann).
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It is a question that has bedeviled American consumers and cooks for decades, since the first LazyMan propane grill went on sale in the 1950s and left the Smiths with their briquette-fueled brazier looking jealously over the fence at the Joneses and their new outdoor science stove.
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In 2016, Parcak won the TED Prize, a grant of a million dollars; she used it to launch a project called GlobalXplorer, a crowdsourcing platform, by which citizen Indiana Joneses can scrutinize satellite maps and identify potential new sites, adding these to a database without publicly revealing the coördinates.
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But the mid-2010s are a weird moment when boastfulness is celebrated while simultaneously used as a cloak to cover up the sort of fear that results from constantly feeling watched and sensing the need to "keep up" with whatever set of Joneses the market has placed nearby for comparison points.
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Former EPA staffers report that Pruitt told them he (making only $180,000 a year, poor baby) was just, in effect, trying to "keep up with the Joneses" — the wealthiest president and Cabinet in history, including the Trumps (estimated net worth $2.8 billion); the McMahons ($1.6 billion); the DeVoses ($85033 billion); and the Mnuchins ($400 million).
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In 1968, the Joneses brought Stokely Carmichael (who would soon take the name Kwame Ture) and other members of the Black Panthers to Halifax, and in November of that year they helped organize a "black family meeting," as it was billed, that drew more than 400 people to the North Branch Library in Halifax to discuss issues of injustice.
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The reality TV star turned cosmetics billionaire makes an estimated $1 million per sponsored post on her Instagram, according to the 2018 Instagram Rich List compiled by Hopper HQ. Seeing celebrities, or even peers, eating out, going on vacations or buying clothes or other items creates a "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality that is hard to resist, several recent studies found.
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The most significant partnership is with Center Theater Group, one of the largest nonprofit theaters in the country, which has commissioned, with Second Stage, six of the writers, including Ms. Nottage and another Pulitzer winner, Paula Vogel ("Indecent"); the Tony winner Lisa Kron ("Fun Home"); as well as Jon Robin Baitz ("Other Desert Cities"), Will Eno ("The Realistic Joneses") and Ms. Lee.
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And while that has not stopped people from calling me a food snob in the past — apparently if you roll your eyes and say, "There's no such thing as a 'crustless quiche,' it's just called a frittata," you're asking for it — my desire to connect over a good dinner or craft beers goes much deeper than just wanting to keep up with the culinary Joneses.
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Those core features today appear to be based around pushing things like the premium Skype for Business service; integrations with other Microsoft services; an app to rival Slack (that had been tipped originally as "Skype Teams" but eventually launched as Microsoft Teams); along with newer services like a bot developer platform to keep up with the Messenger Joneses, and a low-bandwidth version for developing markets.
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In the same instant that I am mentally chastising myself for being that girl, the Keeping Up With the Joneses star flops into a chair, swings her legs over the arm with total disregard for potential undergarment exposure, begs me to forgive her for taking off the shoes "that are killing her," and waves off the drink service commonly offered to and accepted by actors at press junkets.
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The movies came out one after another: "Million-Dollar Arm," in which Mr. Hamm plays a sports agent who grows a heart, thanks to a saucy medical resident (Lake Bell); "Keeping Up With the Joneses," an action comedy starring Zach Galifianakis in which he and a pre-"Wonder Woman" Gal Gadot portray spies; and "Baby Driver," a crime fantasy in which he appears as a somewhat deranged third banana.
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This point was well put in an essay, "Keeping Up With the Joneses," by Neil Fligstein, a professor of sociology at Berkeley, Pat Hastings, a Ph.D. candidate at Berkeley, and Adam Goldstein, professor of sociology at Princeton, which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association: Growing income inequality in the U.S. has meant that as those at the top are able bid up the price of valued goods like housing and access to good schools, those in lower groups have struggled to maintain their positions.
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