Word: well-off
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...Helping well-off, hung-up students is no doubt a worthy cause, but USOE officials, feeling that it is one best paid for by the school districts themselves, have begun a campaign to eliminate wealthy districts from the Title I rolls and concentrate the money in districts where poverty is something more than a curiosity recorded in 1960 census figures. The USOE has asked state education departments to use up-to-date welfare statistics to allot the money so that it will go to the most needy districts. The states, however, plead that local programs, once established, should...
...jokes. More than "poor-mouthing," Kennedy evoked a new sense of self-awareness and self-realization--more like Teddy Roosevelt than any 20th century Democratic President. The promise of dignity and security he held out to his "special constituency" was matched by his attempt to teach the well-off the perils of smug self-isolation...
Self-interest predominated. Two years ago, in the beginning of the controversy over the draft, Harvard students complained that the system was highly discriminatory, favoring the well-off. They called the II-S student deferment an unfair advantage for those who could go to college...
...getting all these shades of opinion is something else. Board members serve without pay, and less well-off citizens cannot spare the time. There have been instances in which state governors, who nominate members, have been known not to look very hard. There have been instances, in fact, in which the draft boards have not reflected a cross-section of the population of a state in the past...
...started 18 months ago by an itinerant financial adviser, James Walsh, and Robert D. Hayes, former owner of a private business-administration school (and also, by no coincidence, Robert O. Hayes's father). The two were drawn together by the idea of bringing foundations to the average well-off citizen. If such big shots as the Kennedys and the Johnsons could set up tax-free trusts and foundations, why couldn't the middle shots? After examining the legal details with care, Walsh and Hayes concluded that there was no reason in the world why they couldn...