Word: affluent
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...lacks the traditional justification for crime?the bitter spur of poverty. It also lacks the occasional, near-heroic dimension of defying law and the established order for the sake of rebellion. It is by and large a middle-class sort of Mob, more or less tolerated by the affluent. Among the public there is often a certain psychological hypocrisy. Rage is great over conspicuous criminal acts, but there is less anger over the far more harmful depredations that are the specialty of organized crime. Until there is a popular revolt, La Cosa Nostra will probably endure...
...managing of money so that its owners will be free to turn their full attention to their own businesses." Not only will troubled markets and tighter tax laws make it harder for the amateur investor to turn a profit, but many of the new millionaires -or the merely affluent-will find that they do not have the time even...
They live in overmortgaged, underserviced blue-collar ghet tos where they pay a stiffer price - in poor schools, en croaching throughways and war casualties - than do affluent whites across the city lines. Most of them still believe in God, country, the work ethic and a sexual standard that calls for at least a decent public restraint. In a day of diz zying moral change, they see themselves as the last defenders of moral authority. That is why they still admire the military and regard the police as heroes. The New York Times's Tom Wicker had a revelation...
...This was, when you come to think of it, the original affluent society," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Marshall D. Sahlins. He credits the hunter-gatherers with a Zen-like philosophy about scarcity and plenty. Implicitly, they accept as a fact of the human condition that "material ends are few and finite and technical means unchanging but on the whole adequate. Adopting the Zen strategy, a people can enjoy an unparalleled material plenty, though perhaps only a low standard of living...
...Symbol. Gucci spares neither time nor money to turn out the products that more and more people want in an increasingly affluent world. Even shopgirls and clerks seem willing to spend beyond their means to own the same kind of luggage or clothes as Jackie or Frankie or Princess Lee. The Gucci shoe, a chunky loafer with a metal snaffle across the instep and a price tag from $31 to $49, has become one of those subtleties of dress that are supposed to separate the Main Line from the wrong side of the tracks. Enriched by demand for such symbols...