Word: well-to-do
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Serious questions have also been raised about the Cooper client base, disproportionately made up of motivated people who are not terribly obese and, significantly, well-to-do and white--a more than trivial problem when the obesity crisis hits hardest in poor and minority communities...
...Clearly, early in the piece, disillusionment can strike. "Chloe," 22, started this year on a kindergarten class in a well-to-do part of Sydney. Blonde and attractive, she sensed straight away that some parents doubted she was up to the job. "We're just concerned," one told her, "that you don't understand (five-year-olds) because you don't have children yourself." Within days of taking on 22 kids - and still trying to memorize names - it seemed to her that some of the parents expected she'd already know the idiosyncrasies of the entire class. "One step outside...
...paradoxical sources of appeal in the current zeitgeist, one a celebration of convention and wealth, the other a manifesto of street-toughness and bohemian penury. In the age of Reagan, la-di-da formality has made big black limousines and black-tie soirees modish once again. Thus for the well-to-do, basic black is a means of ostentatious discretion. On the other hand, the angry black of the new wave--dark glasses, sour black T shirts and scruffy black jeans--is more the anarchist's traditional black. It is neo-beatnik, the color correlate of the adolescent angst satirized...
...Tigris have not begun to solve. The board's bulldozers are flattening 300 slum houses and bazaar shops to open a new freeway through the city center. Now that the floods have been stemmed, the city is spreading beyond the dikes where handsome villas are rising for the new, well-to-do middle classes ... France's Le Corbusier will build a sports stadium, and 88-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright returned enthusiastically from Baghdad last week ready to create an opera house "like nothing in the world" on an island in the Tigris ... Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "We feel...
After lunch, the canvassers move to a less well-to-do section of town—with multifamily dwellings replacing the sprawling McMansions of the morning route...