Word: affluent
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...boxers hail from affluent families. Often these men have but two options: fighting or crime. When this is your choice, boxing takes on a new light...
...Hours, the handling of Nolte's and Murphy's relationship is more sensitive and profound. Under their white or Black skins, they are not at all the same person. Nolte is a gruff, WASPish, bigoted cop, while Murphy the convict is affluent and civilized. Their developing friendship inspire of themselves provides the tender subplot to this tough movie...
Since they were first exported to the U.S. 26 years ago, the tanklike sedans and boxy station wagons have endeared themselves to L.L. Bean-wearing university professors and affluent suburbanites. Today the safe and sensible Volvo has never been more popular. In a year when other auto manufacturers are struggling, Volvo's American sales are up 12.8%, and the car has passed Volkswagen as the bestselling European import. Last week the Volvo's proud Swedish parent announced that its earnings nearly doubled during the first nine months of this year, to $257 million, as sales increased...
...price from $12,000 to $20,000, Volvo has succeeded in skimming some of the luxury cream off the automotive market, along with its prospering high-priced competitors Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Saab and Porsche. Notes Analyst David Healy of New York's Drexel Burnham Lambert: "Only the affluent can consider buying cars now. To them money is no object...
...says he might like green fur seats." If volume continues to increase, however, one option is to open the U.S. assembly plant that Volvo built in Chesapeake, Va., but decided in 1974 not to operate. Whether an American-made Volvo would diminish the Swedish mystique, only those loyal and affluent buyers know for sure...