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...class crack users may equal -- or even exceed -- the total from poor minority communities. No government studies break down crack use by economic status, but William Hopkins, a leading narcotics expert working for the state of New York, estimates that 70% of New York City's drug users are affluent. Across the U.S., drug counselors report rising numbers of professionals -- doctors, nurses, accountants, professors -- trying to kick crack habits gone out of control. "We've got Wall Street executives who buy crack in the middle of the day and smoke it in the office," says Alan Horowitz, program director...
...complaints say the property should be residential and charges that an expansion of the school's programs would increase congestion in the affluent neighborhood, according to Brooks' attorney Howard Medwed...
...some people have their way, t-shirts proclaiming "Club Redondo Beach" or "Club white-preppy-affluent-school x" will be supplanted by a new breed of shirts much closer to home...
Republican strategists have long feared that abortion could be the issue that divides the affluent, younger suburbanites from the hordes of fundamentalists and right-to-lifers who jointly swelled the G.O.P.'s ranks in the 1980s. Excited Democrats are testing out pro-choice positions to see whether they can lure away pro-choice Republicans and independents. Such strategies could prove especially damaging if they lead to the defeat of Republicans in state legislatures, which next year will begin reapportioning congressional districts on the basis of the 1990 census...
...health-insurance program that it had lopsidedly approved amid a self-congratulatory frenzy just last year. The Senate showed enough moxie to save fragments of the plan, but it too voted to kill a special income-tax surcharge (up to $800) that would have been levied solely on the affluent elderly to help fund the program...