Word: affluent
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...about anything in such an idyllic setting; contradictions are not so apparent. There are other streets in Cambridge that are not so pretty, and they are only blocks away. But then, Cambridge is a town full of contradictions. It is a city that contains a colony of the most affluent young people in the world. Later they leave Cambridge; some of them get rich and buy expensive homes and things like boats, and some of them send money to Harvard every year. If they send in enough, sometimes, they get buildings put up in the Yard with their names gracing...
...that the new features introduced in the New York Times campaign to attract the affluent young New York suburbanite crown are inherently worthless or revolting--although most of them are only marginally more interesting than John Denver lyrics. What really rankles is the utterly shameless way in which the empress is selling herself...
...town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront them when they're stealing and they get insulted. But if you stole things from their offices, they'd have you arrested. It burns...
...down-at-heel third cousins of the regular undergraduate programs. But suddenly, thanks to a predicted decrease in the number of 18-to 22-year-olds and growing financial deficits, colleges have realized that extension programs are lucrative and are madly recruiting the older, more serious-and often more affluent-student. Weekend colleges are blossoming. Night schools boast better faculty. Liberal arts colleges, where adults were once treated as gray-haired pariahs, are encouraging older people to participate with regular undergraduates in daytime classes...
...comply, they stand to lose federal aid amounting to $1,400 a student a year. The Association of American Medical Colleges (A.A.M.C.) unanimously condemned the law when it was passed last year as an unwarranted intrusion into the admissions process. Now 18 of the more famous and affluent schools-including Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Stanford-have formally notified the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that they may refuse federal funds rather than comply. Yale, for one, will lose at least $580,000 a year (about 1% of its annual operating budget), a loss the medical school is willing...