Word: affluent
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Some fundamentals have not been abandoned. While targeted to a broader but still affluent readership, much of the advertising remains the same. One can still indulge in checkbook liberalism, save indigenous peoples on the brink of extinction, help educate innercity children, purchase personalized cartouches and locate points of departure for global heroics, even while deciding which luxury car to purchase. The Tilley hat is still available...
...Affluent Bostonians were dining at the trendy and inexpensive ethnic restaurants which line the upper Newbury Street area. A street musician was playing the bongo drums on a stoop along Boylston Street...
...sadly, of the 15,260 people in attendance on Saturday, those belonging to minority groups also belonged to the ushering corps. Is Tanglewood not accessible to all, or just comfortable with its affluent and reliable if homogeneous and somewhat uninterested clientele? While the exceptional music continues to play, the management should consider ways of keeping the business separate from the cultural treasures...
American films and TV shows have won widespread acceptance in the Far East. TV soap operas such as Santa Barbara have developed a huge following among the affluent in New Delhi, India, even though many of the episodes are 10 years old. It is now common to find teenage girls in China wearing lipstick such as U.S. movie stars and youths on Hong Kong streets dressed such as rock-'n'-roll musicians...
...Bundys, both of which now appear on his Fox TV Network in the U.S. Though STAR TV's near- term profitability remains in doubt, there is no question that its programming has already revolutionized the viewing habits and mores of a continent. STAR's early appeal was limited to affluent Asians who traveled frequently and understood English. But satellite dishes can now be found on the roofs of remote farmhouses as well as urban apartment high-rises...