Word: well-to-do
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...years, and stays of four or five years are not uncommon there and at similar institutions around the country. The trend's most adventurous examples are, coincidentally or not, in Illinois. Hephzibah Children's Association, named after a biblical benefactor, operates a small facility funded by the mostly well-to-do citizens of Oak Park; it accommodates children ages 3 to 11 for however long it takes them to be adopted, thus sparing them the foster-care shuffle. Even more unusual, it allows them to veto adoptive parents they don't like. "They stay here until they find a place...
...higher. Mostly the "new refugees" are going to island pseudo countries with names like St. Kitts and Nevis or Turks and Caicos. The U.S. says, "Give me your tired, your poor." These tax havens say the opposite. They are places of Third World poverty where the well-to-do, in exchange for some investment, are invited to shed the normal obligations of citizenship in the developed world...
...powerful Democrats across America -- claim that they are looking beyond the local benefits of federal largess and pondering what it's costing the country to have 435 Congressmen and 100 Senators each forcing the government to keep open another unnecessary hospital or sleepy agency office or subsidy program for well-to-do ranchers. Like other voters around the country, Foley's constituents are questioning whether their Congressman's three-decade struggle to win and wield influence in the nation's capital has torn him out of touch with the folks back home, folks who say they care as much about...
...conductor or concert master waiting for silence: the orchestra simply played--preferably loudly at first--to quiet the crowd. It is partly for this reason that most symphonies from the classical begin with a forte. When Haitink took the stage, the noise from the crowd of the elderly and well-to-do did not diminish. Thus, he dove straight into the cataclysmic opening bars of Brahms to silence the audience...
Finally, the proliferation of many unique applications gives well-to-do students an unfair advantage. These are the students with access to highly-paid counselors who can guide them through each and every individualized application. For less privileged students who lack such resources, the common application levels the playing field, enabling them too to demonstrate their true worth as scholars...