Word: well-to-do
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...question, Sellars applies a thoughtful interpretation to his work. For him Pericles symbolizes modern American man. His character becomes a latter 20th-century well-to-do Everyman in the odyssey of life. Pericles's court the corporate boardroom and his nobles its directors. Dissatisfied with business life and wary of the evil it can wreak, he leaves Easy Street to live adventure and try his fortune. After ups and downs, he finds his greatest solace in having his own family. Affairs of business (the board of directors wants a new chairman) drive him away again, and in that journey...
...enthusiasts. Like its fancy counterparts elsewhere-New York City's Vertical Club and the New York Health & Racquet Club, suburban Washington's Sporting Club, Houston's Texas Club, the San Francisco Bay Club, West Los Angeles' Holiday Health Spa-the club has a clientele of well-to-do professionals, whose Jaguars, Mercedes and BMWs crowd the underground garage...
...homeland with the virtually unpronounceable name of Bophuthatswana. The state has a population of 1.4 million and an average annual income of less than $500 a year. The resort's slot machines, roulette wheels and befeathered chorus girls attract as many as 50,000 visitors a day, mostly well-to-do whites who make the two-hour drive from Pretoria and Johannesburg...
This month HBO is airing American Family Revisited, an hour-long examination of how the camera changed the Louds from an anonymous well-to-do Santa Barbara family into what some observers labeled the living symbols of a culture in decline. Made by Susan and Alan Raymond, who filmed the original, the new documentary lacks the ragged power and immediacy of the series: a studied slickness supplants the prototype's shaky hand-held camera style. But underneath the gloss there is - O tempora, O mores! -another exposé of the Loud family's habitual self-exposure...
...increased number of U.S. hospitals that are owned or managed by profitmaking companies [July 4] raises a serious question: How will public facilities survive? Public hospitals are forced to accept Medicaid and indigent patients; private hospitals do so only to a nominal degree. Consequently, public hospitals need profits from well-to-do and well-insured patients to offset the large losses that Medicaid and nonpaying people generate. If these profits go instead to private hospitals, then a tax to support the public hospital is the only answer...