Word: well-to-do
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...When one well-to-do Ruandan greets another, he places his hands lightly on his friend's elbows and says: "/ sho, sho, sho, gir inka" (I hope your cows are doing well). The friend replies: "Eeh, eeh" (I hope yours...
...year and a half ago, Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing backed up his boss with an elaborate report entitled The Nation's Health. Ewing declared: "Every year, over 300,000 people die whom we have the knowledge and the skills to save ... By & large, only the well-to-do and, to a certain extent, charity patients, get satisfactory medical care...
...cutoff, the Ewing plan would offer an apparent saving in years of heavy illnesses or operations. But since this income group is the part of U.S. society which pays heavy income taxes, people in this group would make up most of the deficits in even bigger income taxes. The well-to-do, if they chose to continue going to a nonparticipating doctor, would pay their full bills. In addition, they would be taxed for something they did not use-just like parents who pay school taxes and then send their children to private schools...
...disappointment of his conservative backers, Ulate showed no inclination to modify the 10% tax on capital imposed by Junta Boss José Figueres. But as long as coffee continued to bring record prices, well-to-do Costa Ricans would not grumble too much. Congress and country seemed to agree that things were going just about right again. Said a satisfied planter in San José: "Costa Rica has been vaccinated. The revolution did it. We had to have it. Costa Rica is protected against power-grabbers for the next 50 years. We have regained the democracy we lost...
...Toronto training school, left it nine months later to deal with a wayward world. He became one of the army's most accomplished performers on the euphonium. Ernest could make men cry with his deep-throated horn. He married British-born Ann Vickers, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, who had marched to the army from the Episcopal Church. In 1914 he sailed aboard the Empress of Ireland for a London convention with 300 of Canada's top Salvationists. In a thick St. Lawrence River fog, a freighter cut the Empress in two; she capsized...