Word: well-to-do
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...well-to-do had paid $99 for harborside hotel rooms, and the hoi polloi jammed the sidewalks. It seemed none of them (save the Queen) could help smiling and clapping or waving their $3 Union Jacks. Hundreds of overnight campers stood on lounge chairs or watched the spectacle on portable TVs. Nora de la Cruz brought her portrait of the Queen trimmed with cotton. Said she: "Too bad we could have no block parties...
...year that 20% of the company's VCR production was sold there. Saudi Arabia bans cinemas, bars, nightclubs and theaters, and its local television operates under censorship so strict that even affectionate pecks between husband and wife are too profane for the small screen. Little wonder, then, that well-to-do Saudis snap up VCRs and cassettes, especially of R-and X-rated fare. VCRS and cassettes are banned in Iran, but thousands have been smuggled in by wealthy Iranians. In Egypt, where the per capita income is $500, the privileged few are eagerly buying VCRs...
...West Beirut in spirit as well as in fact; the Lebanese Minister of Education, for example, decreed last week that students in West Beirut schools should take their exams in East Beirut, and vice versa. But the healing will not come quickly. "We are still frozen," explained one well-to-do Beirut woman. "We hope, but we need more time...
...week the deposed Dukakis, 48, won the nomination away from Governor King, 54% to 46%. It was also the state's costliest campaign ever: Dukakis spent $2 million, King $3 million. Dukakis' Republican opponent in November, also nominated last week, will be John Winthrop Sears, 51, a well-to-do Boston city councilman and quintessential Yankee...
...sudden, from Tarzana, Calif., to Tarrytown, N.Y., everyone with a teen-age daughter is wondering: Is she one? A Valley Girl, that is. If she's from a fairly well-to-do family, and between the ages of 13 and 17, chances are she is. If her passions are shopping, popularity, pigging out on junk food and piling on cosmetics, the answer is probably "fer shurr." If she is almost unintelligible, the verdict can only be: "Totally." Particularly if she pronounces the word "Toe-dully...