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Powell's study points to the ready availability of heroin as a reason for the increased use of the drug among adolescents in recent years. Heroin can be easily obtained in both poor and affluent neighborhoods in the Northeast, Powell said...
...identifying themselves as Muskie supporters repeatedly called voters after midnight to ask them how they were going to vote. In California, a phony Muskie letter told wealthy donors that they did not need to contribute to his campaign, since he wanted to rely on numerous small contributions from less affluent givers...
After her husband's death in 1967, she retired to Hawaii, where they had recently bought land. "We had been in the very familiar Eastern-seaboard, affluent-living situation," she says. "An apartment in New York, a home in the country and a place in Arizona for the winter. It had been like that for me since I was 19. I had one great desire, which was just to have one house. I had two conditions: it should be under the American flag, and it should be as livable in winter as summer...
...most pragmatic or desirable self-regulations. Is not the exorbitant cost of medical care a contradiction of the physician's supposed heart-felt concern for the ailing? Is good health merely an expensive commodity or a priceless inalienable right? Are medical resources simply a luxurious prerogative of the affluent? The physician must study the laws of medicine and probability, and yet disease is not specific. The consequences of medical acts cannot always be predicted; individual cases must be examined for their own nuances and patients for their own biological idiosyncracies. Finally, where is the line that distinguishes between...
...underprivileged it is understood that others are overprivileged. The children of the families in this second group all go to Harvard, or else to Radcliffe, its sister college. Of course, in the United States of America there is no explicit "privilege," but the children of those who are affluent and educated have an enormous range of opportunities early in life that guarantees their later success. They live in a literate environment, with books all around. The average overprivileged child of three or four will pull a volume down from the shelf of the family library and read as fast...