Word: well-off
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most important development of the past two weeks. And I hope that all of us—students, faculty, workers, and administrators—will celebrate our eventual exit from this building as a chance to realize a moral commitment to improving the lives of the least well-off in our community...
...with reporters, outraged peasants stuck to their story?they lived in the village after all, they knew their kids were regularly assembling fireworks and they had seen the ripped-apart school with their own eyes?and suddenly Fanglin pointed up many of the tensions pulling at today's China: well-off urbanites vs. the struggling peasantry; Confucian respect for learning vs. teachers' miserliness; and most of all the government's tendency to cover things up vs. a society that increasingly demands the truth...
...stars-turned-addicts can afford the luxury and privacy of exclusive detox clinics in Switzerland, the public rarely learns the risk of dependency posed by doping. Dolivet's Thianty clinic costs $130 a day for its five- to seven-month courses. It receives some outside funding to help less well-off athletes, but dozens of others cannot afford the treatment. Sports clubs and federations could help but don't. "They don't want to be associated with the problem," Dolivet laments. "If you admit your athletes have become addicts from doping, you admit doping is a real problem...
...only for his espoused campaign goals but also for every American's right to vote. He ran a strong and clean race, not merely resting on President Clinton's legacy of peace and prosperity but promising that more can be done to help America's least well...
...issue. But in 1970, WASP-extraordinare Harvard student Oliver Barrett III and foul-mouthed Radcliffe student Jenny Cavilleri fell in love in Love Story. Almost three decades later, Good Will Hunting paired up another well-to-do Harvard undergrad with another from a lower social class; she was a well-off only child, he was a Southie...