Word: affluent
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...automatic faith in female staffs. "I'm skeptical," says Feminist Judy Norsigian, co-author of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, who notes that because male and female physicians receive identical educations, "the women often come out the same." Others point out that the new centers are geared to affluent women, neglecting the old and the poor. And there is concern about whether the clinics are overly accommodating. Leah Dills, 32, who has visited Woman's Care Center in San Francisco at least eight times in the past six months, says the clinic seems a "little test happy," adding "there...
...gangs and gunfire, living in a virtual war zone where murder is the leading cause of death among young men. Since 1981 residents have twice voted for higher taxes to pay for more police officers, but each time the citywide referendum was defeated by voters in the more affluent and better-policed areas of Los Angeles...
Isaac Bashevis Singer tells the story of an aged and poor Jewish shoemaker who arrives in America to join his now affluent sons. Despite his sons` generosity and care, the old man is bewildered by the strangeness of their world. He cannot connect the cosmopolitan Americans he sees before him with the young boys he once trained to make shoes by hand in their cottage home...
...couple--far better than Whitehead, it is true--can tell Melissa how the affluent can use the less fortunate for their own ends. In the world Sorkow's decision would create, where motherhood is a commodity and feelings are reserved for those who can afford them, no knowledge would be more valuable...
Luckily, many of the terminally affluent have stumbled upon a little known service that Harvard provides to appease rich and tortured souls. Playing off the psychology of monied insecurity, Harvard offers a program of fulfillment that surpasses even the most beauteous of plaques. The ads in the society pages read...