Word: well-to-do
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There's plenty of consumption porn on Bravo--Rolexes, cars, vacation homes. But at the heart of it is a specific 21st century definition of luxury: middle-class people buy stuff; rich people buy services. When talismans of indulgence become widespread--lattes, iPhones, etc.--what distinguishes the truly well-to-do is their ability to pay others to do things...
...Millionaire Fair late last month, even the glare off the hood of a $250,000 Wiesmann MF4 supercar could not blind a visitor to the fact that there was far less interest on both sides of the cash register. A glitzy show designed to part Russia's well-to-do from their cash, the fair is usually spread out through three halls in Moscow's Crocus Expo center - this year it took up only two. With fewer vendors and wider aisles between the stands, the small number of visitors seemed even more sparse. "There are much fewer people this year...
...diplomatic zone that a group of city shop owners has just set up a 30-shop market inside the enclave. Though hurriedly built, the traders say they are already working on plans for a more permanent market in the area to take advantage of the walled-in, well-to-do consumers...
...vote against the bailout, putting him at odds with five other Democrats. It's not that Inslee was worried about getting re-elected; he won 64% of the vote in the August primary and is expected to easily win a sixth term representing the First District, which includes well-to-do Seattle suburbs and the high-tech enclave of Redmond, home to Microsoft - an area full of people whose 401(k)s and stock holdings would likely benefit from a bailout. Inslee says that he simply felt the bill was being rushed. He describes the situation as the Bush Administration...
Perhaps it's fallout from television programming such as Nip/Tuck or Dr. 90210 or reruns of Extreme Makeover, but Internet data shows that younger adults have become the primary audience obsessed with altering their personal appearance. Once the domain of the well-to-do female in her fifties, plastic surgery has become the obsession of the least affluent segment of younger Internet users...