Word: affluent
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...merely a matter of economics. Final clubs need not rely on the University for funds, so they can be as separatist as they wish, Jewish and Catholic alumni underwrite their respective centers. Minorities have not been on campus long enough in great enough numbers to establish an affluent alumni network, though, so their undergraduate experiences are tied to College policy...
...final, embattled year of the Nathan M. Pusey '28 presidency. (Before Steiner's appointment, Pusey recalls, "You couldn't turn around without running the risk of getting involved in some legal complication.") Nor do Steiner and Bok come from similar social backgrounds. Bok was reared in Philadelphia's affluent, tree-lined Main Line suburbs, and Steiner grew up in middle-class neighborhoods in and around New York...
...much for that theory. Certain top-of-the-market cosmetics lines have continued to do well in the current slump, including Estee Lauder, Elizabeth Arden and the Cosmair lines of Lancome, Guy Laroche and L'Oreal. The affluent customers for those products have remained affluent through the recession, and even less well-off women have splurged occasionally to give themselves a psychic lift...
...Edward Jackson, 38, a prominent local internist. The case be came even more improbable after the police searched Jackson's car. There they found a long list of rape victims, leading them to believe that Jackson was the "Grandville rapist," suspected of nearly 100 assaults in that affluent neighbor hood. Last week a Franklin County grand jury indicted Jackson on 94 counts, including 36 rapes and 46 burglaries...
...city's buses. Just 26, King was an unlikely choice for the presidency of the organization formed to oversee the boycott. Yet he gained the position because as one observer put it, he could appeal to "both the masses and the classes," both the downtrodden majority and the affluent elite. He could talk to people "from any direction...