Word: well-to-do
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...between well-to-do city dwellers and impoverished peasants gets wider, the fury of the poor is fast becoming explosive. With access to the mass media and the Internet, village folk are becoming more conscious of pervasive hardship and injustice and are beginning to voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel...
...Even my well-to-do, liberal Democrat brother-in-law rejects the notion of Hillary as President and says he might vote for John McCain. Are you listening, decision-making Republicans? McCain can beat any Democrat...
...Instead, chaos spreads, inevitably leading to new catastrophes in an increasing number of countries. Given the Chinese powder keg, the Bush Administration's preoccupation with Iran seems rather out of proportion. Washington should concentrate on how to defuse the Chinese risks. Sture Gadd Helsinki As the gap between well-to-do city dwellers and impoverished peasants gets wider, the fury of the poor is fast becoming explosive. With access to the mass media and the Internet, village folk are becoming more conscious of pervasive hardship and injustice and are beginning to voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities...
...Other social labeling experiments have yielded weak results, and this study builds on them to do the closest to a real lab type experiment we have, and the results are strong,” Freeman wrote in an e-mail. But ABC Carpet and Home caters to a specific well-to-do demographic, said one professor. “One issue is that it’s saying that rich yuppies care about social labeling (if you have ever been to ABC, then you will understand),” wrote Raymond J. Fisman, a visiting professor from the Columbia School...
JOHNSON: The other thing is longevity. We're hitting a point where well-to-do women are hitting 85. A lot of women reasonably expect to live to 90. I'm not going to say how old she is [laughter], but my mom is at this age where the kids have all gone to college and her career is at full throttle, and she's quite reasonably expecting to have another decade when she's just at the top of her game...