Word: well-to-do
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...anyone is headstrong enough to go it alone, it is Lewis. Although a best-selling biography of her husband portrays her as a devoted and dedicated wife, Lewis has always been independent. Born well-to-do in a rural province of the Philippines, she bears an uncanny resemblance to former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, which is no accident. From her occasional horn-rimmed glasses to her fondness for bright yellow clothes, Lewis has purposely modeled herself after her personal hero and close friend. Like "Cory," she tries to avoid confrontation, but she won't back down, as the brotherhood...
Dole would also repeal Clinton's 1993 tax increase on the Social Security receipts of well-to-do pensioners. And for a guy who pledged to simplify the tax code, Dole offered a plan with enough special breaks and incentives to keep accountants busy for years. So his notion of abolishing the Internal Revenue Service "as we know it" (a deliberate echo of Clinton's 1992 pledge on welfare) might take a while...
...Assault on Tony's revolves around a group of men, almost interchangeable characters, who exist only in relation to the bottle. They are white and fairly well-to-do, and for 17 days they are hunkered down in a bar in an unnamed city as the whole country is besieged by vicious race riots. Bullets fly around them, but the group's main worry is that the booze will run dry. O'Brien is at his most eloquent when describing this visceral fear: "For the first time in his life," he writes, "Rudd found himself wishing for death, hoping (praying...
While the well-to-do worry about quality of life, low- and middle-income residents voice fears of being pushed out of boomtowns as the increased demand for housing sends prices to the sky. Growth critics imagine the West turning into a string of Vail-like resorts, where the rich play and others stay away. Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop J. Francis Stafford wrote in a pastoral letter last fall, "We risk creating a theme park 'alternate reality' for those who have the money to purchase entrance and around them sprawls a growing buffer zone of the working poor...
Never far from a bottle of Stolichnaya or a discounted Vivienne Westwood frock, Edina and Patsy are without sitcom ancestry. They aren't scatterbrained housewives or ambitious careerists or sassy working-class women struggling to make ends meet. They're single, well-to-do best friends of unadmitted age, who drug, carouse and couture-shop their way through life. Hardly ever do they tend to the pseudo-glam, fashion-world jobs they inexplicably manage to keep...