Word: well-to-do
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California's celebrated Proposition 13 has become a puzzler for the rest of the nation. Some observers see it as part of a conservative backlash against the welfare state. President Carter says it vindicates his populist view that ordinary folks are rising in wrath against the well-to-do and their three-martini lunches. At the Time Inc. tax conference, Public Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich, who conducts regular surveys for TIME, offered his findings...
...Committee last week began a final writing session on the bill, the cut had been reduced to $15 billion and all the reforms had been removed. Instead there will almost certainly be a slash in the capital gains tax, which the President opposes as a benefit primarily to the well...
...influx of well-to-do foreigners to California in the past two years or so has resulted in the biggest real estate boom in Los Angeles since the invention of the cinematograph. An estimated 20% of all property in the chic Beverly Hills-Brentwood-Bel Air area is now foreign owned. Iranians have nicknamed Loma Vista Drive "Aga Sheik Hadi Avenue," after the street where many lived in Tehran. Says Elaine Young, a Beverly Hills real estate broker who has sold palatial properties to foreigners from many countries: "Southern California has become the world's rich melting...
...turned him into one of the most spectacular horses of all time. Stymie won more than $900,000 in purses, allowing Jacobs and Bieber to buy a 283-acre breeding farm in Maryland. They called it Stymie Manor. Jacobs, meanwhile, had married Ethel Dushock, daughter of a well-to-do manufacturer from Yonkers, and raised a family of two boys and a girl...
While the well-to-do experiment with Western ways behind closed doors, groups of Islamic zealots, known the Committees for the Commendation of Virtue and the Condemnation of Vice, still patrol the streets outside. At prayer time these committees roam the cities and towns, ordering shops to close. Not long ago, the committees campaigned against young men who had adopted the infidel habit of letting their hair grow long. The drive backfired when a committee caught a tough Bedouin whose tribe had worn long hair for centuries. The tribesman fought back and was stabbed to death in the fight...