Word: well-to-do
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...What the world at large really dislikes about the U.S. is the same thing we would find distasteful in any overbearing, well-to-do relative: incurable arrogance. Who couldn't help gritting his teeth at a self-described superpower that treats the majority of its neighbors like poor second cousins who should be grateful for whatever they receive? For just one day, the U.S. was knocked from its pedestal, and this engendered an outpouring of genuine empathy, not sympathy, from around the world?not because, as Krauthammer suggested, we reveled in the fact the mighty had at last fallen...
After completing undergraduate studies at the College, Taradash went on to attend Harvard Law School, graduating in 1936. However, despite passing the New York state bar exam, Taradash preferred writing to practicing law. He managed to persuade his well-to-do father to support his career goals for a trial period of two years...
...Bush's tax-cut program can be characterized as another gift to the wealthy and a boost to class warfare [NATION, Jan. 20], then I say bring it on! By no definition could I be considered wealthy, well-to-do, rolling in money or even affluent, yet I am 100% in support of the plan. Why? Because it's fair. It gives back to those who contribute to the system, and it recognizes those who plan and work for the future, as opposed to those who don't. JERRY SLASKE Wauwatosa...
There was no rebellious stage in Spitzer's life, no long-hair days. But his competitiveness, especially in athletics, was directed as much at family as friends. In some well-to-do households, there is a rite of passage in which the son finally beats the father at tennis. As a teen, Spitzer found himself near that goal one day, closing in for the kill. When his father paused to catch his breath, Spitzer called out, "Mom, Dad is stalling!" The family still talks about the time Bernard cruelly whipped his son in Monopoly...
...honest man and a successful merchant, his loving marriage to Khadija--leading up to the moment when, while he was meditating in the hills above Mecca, an angel instructed him to "recite." That was the pivot of Muhammad's life, the event that turned him from a well-to-do businessman into the acknowledged leader of a religious group that established dominance in much of Arabia during his lifetime...