Word: affluent
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...presence of increasing numbers of poor people, continue to grow. Political scientists have often urged the formation of metropolitan governments, but city home rule-one of the great causes of urban reform in the first years of this century--allows suburbs to refuse to be joined to the less affluent cities. (Fear of racial desegregation also plays a role.) Although metropolitan unification is impossible in most areas, there is nothing to prevent the state from acting as a sort of metropolitan government, particularly since the majority of residents of states like New York, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and Massachusetts live...
...Adam Smith's phrase, "a people of customers." And in the affluent 1960's the voice of the customer is increasingly being heard and heeded. It is a predominantly feminine voice, since American women buy an estimated 75% of all goods and services. Thus it was a characteristically canny decision on Lyndon Johnson's part not only to decree the new post of Special Presidential Assistant on Consumer Affairs in January 1964 but also to appoint a woman as the first holder of that office. Her name is Mrs. Esther Peterson, and if gimmickry, guff and guile...
...South. Of some 21,000 lawyers in Mississippi, only five are Negroes. Even relatively enlightened North Carolina has only 125 Negro lawyers in a Negro population of 1,500,000. The Negro lawyer is barred from judgeships, professorships, political appointments, big corporate firms and affluent clients. Even injured Negroes usually prefer white lawyers because they get more money from white juries. As a result, most important rights cases are directed by non-Southern lawyers, who for all their frequent zeal and skill, are often unfamiliar with the procedural obstacles thrown up by segregated justice...
...industrialized, welfare-loving Sweden has long enjoyed the highest living standard in Europe. Prices are stiff (76? for a pack of cigarettes, $9 for a fifth of Scotch, $1.50 per Ib. for hamburger), but after 32 years of unbroken and rising prosperity, Sweden's workers have grown so affluent that about all the tiny, obstreperous Communist Party could find to demand in the last election was "two houses for every family." Swedish families already own 375,000 vacation homes and 300,000 pleasure boats, as well as a car for every four persons. Domestic tranquility is rarely ruffled...
...Populist potentates who had done much to lead the poor and exploited into the affluent society, it was time to step down. Grizzled, rotund David Dubinsky, for 34 turbulent years president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and bluff, white-thatched James G. Fatten, fiery head of the National Farmers Union for the past quarter-century, both retired last week, turning over their flourishing organizations to less flamboyant men noted more for managerial than messianic talents...