Word: well-to-do
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...nearly 200 years since well-to-do Sydney colonists thought it fashionable to keep young dingoes as pets, but children today still delight in the fat-bellied, golden pups that Lyn Watson takes into shopping centers and schools for show-and-tell visits. The Victorian-based dingo breeder and international dog judge is waging a publicity battle to convince Australians that the dingo is worth saving - a fight that's been going on, in one way or another, ever since sheep arrived with the First Fleet and the dingo became an outlaw. Since then, the animal that figures in Aboriginal...
...there's someone content to accept whatever life brings. For everyone who chooses the 80-hour workweek, there's someone punching out at 5. Men and women--so it's said--express ambition differently; so do Americans and Europeans, baby boomers and Gen Xers, the middle class and the well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer and then left the company in 1985 as a 34-year-old multimillionaire. His partner, Steve Jobs, is still innovating at Apple and moonlighting at his second blockbuster company, Pixar Animation Studios...
Valerie Plame used to live hidden in plain sight. The brick house she and her husband, Joseph Wilson, bought in May of 1998 is on a leafy, Washington, D.C. side-street, a few turns from the German Embassy, and fits right in with the other well-to-do homes around it. The open garage door displays the common items of family life: bicycles, kids' toys, garbage cans. Wilson's convertible Jaguar sits parked in the driveway. A paved walkway cuts through a manicured lawn to the front door, behind which children can be heard playing. But the slim, attractive woman...
...After a rocky courtship, Lincoln marries Mary Todd, 23, from a well-to-do Kentucky family. Their first child, Robert, is born nine months later. Mary would live to bury three of her four children...
...eldest son of a well-to-do landowner, Deng grew up in a period of violent unrest, climaxed but not ended by the revolution of 1911 in which Sun Yat-sen brought down the imperial Qing dynasty. When Deng was about 15, his father enrolled him in one of the best secondary schools in the city of Chongqing. A hardworking student, Deng followed a curriculum that enabled him at 16 to enter a program providing an opportunity to work and study in France. Despite an anti-Western wave then simmering in China, Deng and many others of his generation jumped...