Word: well-to-do
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...their film, "bonding under pressure," as Cameron puts it, is one of the themes of their lives, their love affair having developed out of their high-velocity work on The Terminator. And, in fact, they do not have much in common in their backgrounds. The daughter of a well-to-do private investor, she was raised mainly in Palm Springs, Calif. A confessed academic overachiever, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He was born in Canada, the son of an electrical engineer, and ended up in Brea, Calif., where he spent five semesters at local colleges, dropping...
...free papers are usually distributed in carefully selected neighborhoods and shopping centers. Advertisers such as movie theaters, concert halls, groceries and restaurants use the free papers because they pay only for the type of circulation they want. New York City's Our Town, for example, goes to 121,000 well-to-do readers at all the best addresses in a 2.8-sq.-mi. area of Manhattan's Upper East Side. Thin on news content and partial to causes like raising funds for homeless pets, Our Town earned estimated revenues of $1 million last year and profits of about...
...surface. Most of them still live in big houses with spacious grounds, universally protected by solid walls, which, they like to explain to visitors, are for enclosing children and dogs. Even whites of fairly modest income have a life-style that would be out of the reach of well-to-do professionals in the U.S. or Western Europe. In today's depressed real estate market, a comfortable house with three or four bedrooms, a swimming pool, a well-tended garden suitable for barbecues or evening parties, and perhaps a tennis court, can be had for less than...
Noelle's parents were concerned. Their 21-month-old daughter had failed to gain any weight in nearly six months. Such failure to thrive is usually the result of illness, poverty or neglect, but Dr. Michael Pugliese found that the child was basically healthy and the couple well-to-do and doting. In fact, the parents were so committed to caring for Noelle (not her real name) that they had placed her on a stringent low-fat diet in an effort to ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth...
...bought a run-down building that had been occupied by squatters and fixed it up. Soon he was buying and renovating other undervalued houses as well. His neighbors were suspicious at first that he aimed to gentrify the neighborhood by selling to well-to-do whites, but in fact his customers have all been black families. "The real restriction of being black middle class," Ford says, "is that nobody has a place for you." By providing affordable housing, Ford has, in a literal way, given them a place. "We came from a protest generation," he says. "We didn't know...