Word: affluent
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...Alun and his mates gather each midday at the Bible and Crown, the local pub. From there, it is on to expeditions in search of other watering houses that have not been rendered horrible by modern redecoration. At one such ruined spot, Peter pays ironic tribute to the affluent society: "In the bad old days only very rich people could hope to enjoy surroundings like these. Now they're within the reach of all." While the men pub-crawl, the wives gossip, drink wine and discuss the problems of having idle men about the premises: "It's quite a problem...
Housing is dear in London, but $60,000 for a broom closet? That was the asking price for a 5 1/2-ft. by 11-ft. room on Princes Court opposite Harrods department store in the affluent Knightsbridge section of the city. Though the cubicle had indeed been a broom closet, it was gussied up with a concealed kitchen sink, Laura Ashley wallpaper and a tiny window...
...said he would reject a CCA endorsement because of his working class North Cambridge constituency--although he supports many of the liberal organization's positions. "The CCA is still seen as [belonging to] Wards 7 and 8," he said, referring to the affluent Harvard and Brattle Street districts...
Their wide, staring eyes and matchstick arms are the all too familiar icons of hunger and despair. The Third World's starving millions are truly the wretched of the earth, and in recent years the affluent West has lavished billions of dollars in efforts to feed them. Yet famine relief is a very small part of the roughly $1 trillion in aid that rich nations have given poor ones since World War II in the largest voluntary transfer of wealth in human history. Throughout the world today, thousands of public and private organizations are spending some $35 billion a year...
...Washington, D.C., for instance, some 70 percent of the inhabitants are Black, but the only major newspaper in town is white-owned and the most affluent neighborhoods are white. The Black slums of D.C. have no white counterparts. It doesn't even seem to matter much that the mayor and the chief of police are Black...