Word: well-to-do
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Although the more well-to-do traveler will want to explore in sunny weather you'll love the rainfor the way it eliminates crowds and guaranteesbetter service(only the cool kids play in the rain). Bring your parka--the ubiquitous black umbrellas on sale at every street corner are a major rip-off; prices swell with the puddles. But careful not to wear a white T-shirt--natives tend to be a little nipple-conscious...
...Anna Magnani, one of the most popular actresses of neo-realism, with whom Pasolini had ideological as well as artistic disputes, but who nonetheless plays exquisitely what she had called "the most important role I have played so far"). After her former pimp, Carmine (Franco Citti), marries a well-to-do lady from the countryside, Mamma Roma attempts to lead a respectable life, selling vegetables in an open air Roman market. More importantly, she brings her son, Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), to Rome, with the hopes of providing him a good education and a job at a local restaurant...
...making in Medina, Washington. Billionaires used to endow museums to care for their private art collections; amassing the digitalized holdings of such institutions for home enjoyment is not quite the same thing. With libraries moving online and 500 channels of interactive TV promised fairly soon, even modestly well-to-do and well-connected families may someday find leaving the house unnecessary...
...unretired 65-year-old with an earned income exceeding $100,000 doesn't need Social Security payments. Social Security gives that person the option to stop working, but need not be a source of luxuries for an already well-to-do citizen...
Would-be reformers face fierce resistance to their efforts to curb entitlements to the well-to-do. The Republicans who now control Congress promise to cut taxes on the "middle class," but their definition extends to families with income of $200,000 a year. And the G.O.P. prefers to pay for new tax cuts by cutting spending on the poor and the bureaucracies that purport to serve them, rather than on upper-income Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed...