Word: well-to-do
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...formed the CCA in the 1940s, and for a long time the organization was dominated by a sort of Yankee Republicanism, distinguished by a distaste for corruption and a desire for efficiency. With the turbulence of the Vietnam era, that changed. The swing leftward on national issues among the well-to-do, especially the academic well-to-do, translated on the local level into support for rent control and other programs designed to aid the poor. All of a sudden, having a diverse city was as important as a clean city or an efficiently managed city...
...income families will become ineligible for various forms of federal tuition support in the next academic year. But after all the White House rhetoric about concentrating government aid on poor students and all the Congressional squabbling over income ceilings and "needs" tests, almost everyone attending Harvard--including many from well-to-do families--will continue to receive benefits available in the past...
...middle class users who dabble with heroin in conjunction with cocaine smoke it rather than inject it in their veins like the ghetto kid. This, they believe, prevents addiction. Not so. Heroin, however used, is a fiercely addictive drug, and treatment centers are receiving an influx of well-dressed, well-to-do men and women who have sorely underestimated it. In Manhattan alone, dozens of such people can be seen early each morning standing in line at the clinic of Greenwich House West, where they are administered methadone in an attempt to wean them from heroin...
Robert Morley, 73, actor, on how well-to-do Britons not invited to the royal wedding will hide their shame: "Check Moss Brothers. There will be lots of folks who will rent morning coats, then spend the afternoon wandering the fashionable sections of the city pretending they had been invited to the wedding...
...John's parents moved to Evergreen, Colo., a Ponderosa town some 25 miles outside Denver. It is that city's choicest mountain suburb: a place of steep, piney cul-de-sacs and well-to-do placidity. On some of his periodic sabbaticals from Texas Tech, John Jr. alighted at the new family home, and while there he often loitered at the local high school, presumably seeking companionship...