Word: affluent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disproportion seems to be based on economic as well as ethnic factors. Air crashes, which entail millions of dollars in losses and mainly affect the affluent middle class, especially outside the U.S., command far more coverage than less glamorous causes of violent death. On the same day that the New York Times was giving front-page play to both air accidents last month, it carried three paragraphs at the bottom of an inside page about rebel action in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed twelve people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that...
...also refrains from the sort of moral harangue which is certainly warranted by apartheid but which might make a less effective movie. In particular, Palcy, who is Black uses moderation in contrasting the affluent white lifestyle so obviously different from the lives led by Blacks...
...beaten, the Colombian cocaine cartel proved last week that it still has the will -- and the means -- to terrorize anyone who dares oppose it. On Monday Pablo Pelaez Gonzalez, a former mayor of Medellin and a vocal critic of the cartel, was being chauffeured from his home in the affluent El Poblado section of the city when at least eight gunmen riddled his car with bullets. Both Pelaez and his driver were killed. The same day, unidentified assailants fire bombed the summer homes of two prominent Medellin business executives. The attacks came as Eduardo Martinez Romero, the drug lieutenant extradited...
...last week's meeting, school affiliates told the council that race was the predominant factor in neighborhood objections that led the school to sell its property and move out of the affluent Brattle St. area. At the instigation of Walsh and Councillor Saundra Graham, the council voted to establish a blue ribbon committee to investigate allegations of racial harassment...
Time was, when you wanted such a meal, you had to go to a fancy restaurant. No longer. In major cities from San Francisco to New Orleans to New York City, home-delivery services are springing up to rush gourmet fare from restaurants to the couch-bound affluent. In addition, many top-of-the-line restaurants are delivering their own plastic-packaged food, largely to combat the still lingering drop in business since the 1987 market crash. As a result, according to the Lempert Report, a food-industry newsletter, U.S. restaurants expect to sell more than $10 billion worth...