Word: affluently
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What makes this combination particularly shameful is that money can buy so much of the pleasure and freedom that ordinarily belong to the young. Poor children living in scary neighborhoods have to grow up fast. But affluent grownups can prolong their own childhoods through years of higher education and sheltered internships. They can spend money on therapies that explore the "inner child." They get to play too, well into the Centrum Silver years, at the kind of outdoor sports any kid would love. All of which is fine, except when these charming traits are combined with indifference toward the condition...
...affluent district that has returned its Republican representative to Washington in the past eight elections, first-time candidate Torf (he had no opponent in the primary) is a long shot. He hopes to attract those disaffected by the realities of the antigovernment movement, advocating educational and training programs for children and the poor and pushing to keep Medicare spending stable...
...this seat from Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky by emphasizing her 1993 vote for the Clinton budget--a betrayal in this affluent Republican district. Now Fox faces Joe Hoeffel, who accuses him of being a Gingrich loyalist. In what is considered a bellwether race, party leaders are paying special attention to this hotly contested campaign...
...fourth straight election, Democrats are not running an opponent against Spence, the 13-term incumbent whose district is dominated by affluent--and Republican--suburbs. But Spence, a former Navy officer and the survivor of a double lung transplant, won't know until after Election Day whether House balance of power will allow him to remain head of its National Security Committee...
...affairs, it came after his real foreign experience: nearly seven years as a POW in Vietnam. A long, heroic military career might have been enough for most people; Johnson found a new life in Congress. And he is so popular in his district, one of the nation's most affluent, that no Democrat--until Lee Cole--has opposed him since he was first elected...