Word: well-to-do
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...this time she is enrolled at an Episcopal boarding school in Tacoma, and it is not sex but education that engages her most passionate interests. She realizes that her classmates are pleasant, well-to-do girls whose sights are set on making an appropriate marriage: "Our school could not maintain an elite status socially while offering anything like a serious education." But a few dedicated teachers prep the ambitious girl, and she gets her wish. She is admitted to Vassar. McCarthy writes, "I prefer being a Puget Sound type that had gone east to college, as could happen, though rarely...
...well-to-do architect, Buettner-Janusch was raised in Wisconsin, did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1957. He taught at Yale for seven years and, after failing to receive tenure, moved to Duke in 1965. In academic circles he built a reputation based on his studies in physical anthropology, specifically blood and genetic relationships between lemurs, apes and humans...
...Raymond Johnson Jr., president of the Los Angeles N.A.A.C.P. "If this were proposed by a white councilman in Jackson, Miss., on the premise that it's black-on-black crime and blacks ought to pay for it, it would be a national outrage." Johnson and others argue that if well-to-do neighborhoods were to take the cue and vote to hire their own police, not to mention fire fighters, street cleaners and tree trimmers, they would be even more likely to oppose further citywide tax measures to benefit low-income areas...
After a few years of bliss, however, the well-to-do often begin to wonder if there is not something more to this wacky and all too brief flash of existence known to all but the most uninformed as "life". These thoughts make rich people sad, so they often search for ways to spend their money that will make them feel better...
...order to remove themselves from the social catastrophe that had been created by the rise of open admissions and financial aid, the well-to-do students looked to their parents' yacht clubs for a solution. Enter the Harvard final clubs...