Word: affluent
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...trying to get a mortgage from a nearby savings and loan which refuses to lend money in its own neighborhood. The LaSalle St. banker, profiting from the city, probably lives in the suburbs; the neighborhood resident may well be on the verge of joining the white flight to less affluent communities, in part, because of something that doesn't work at all in Chicago: the schools--among the nation's worst...
...Soviets would get additional secret papers and the names of CIA agents who might be vulnerable to seduction by the KGB. The note instructed the Soviets to make two payoffs-$3,000 to be dropped off at 2 p.m. the next day beside a fire hydrant in an affluent neighborhood of Bethesda, Md., and a second payoff of $197,000 at the same place a few hours later...
...think that in a country like ours, with its many affluent families and law-abiding citizens, such conditions are allowed to exist! Our elderly citizens, innocent victims of inflation and the growing decadence of society, are being continuously subjected to abuse...
...reductions for individuals under the Jones plan would average 19% for taxpayers with incomes below $20,000, but would only average 4% for taxpayers with higher incomes. About 72% of the benefits would flow to workers earning less than $20,000. They and more affluent taxpayers who would get only the 4% cut would receive benefits either through alterations of existing tax brackets or through increasing the personal tax credit from the current...
...That may take a long time. Fully 85,000 Lebanese and Palestinians in Lebanon are homeless, and there is little hope of finding space before winter winds and rain begin next month. Damour, twelve miles south of Beirut, was once an affluent community of 10,000 Christians. Palestinians from the ruined refugee camp of Tel Zaatar, the scene of some of Beirut's bloodiest fighting, now live in Damour's bombed-out, windowless buildings, existing on a single loaf of bread a day. 'We have to scrounge for anything else to eat,' complained...