Word: well-to-do
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...founding partner in the prominent New York insurance agency, Ives & Myrick, where he conceived the idea of "estate planning." Ives took almost as sweeping and humanitarian a view of life insurance as he did of music. He bucked at the notion that coverage was a privilege of the well-to-do, and began issuing more small policies to low-income householders. He also organized the Ives & Myrick training school for agents, which other insurance companies quickly imitated. Ives himself wrote the firm's sales handbook The Amount to Carry-Measuring the Prospect. It became a Bible of the industry...
This way, of course, lie only madness and despair, but that is all right with Axel, since he has had all the boring advantages-a well-to-do family, a proper education. Indeed, when he has a few minutes to spare from the morning line he teaches literature in a New York City college. He knows-oh God, does he know-what he is doing. He is nearly consumed with self-awareness...
...Cuba's middle class was transplanted largely intact to Miami, so were the island's language and culture. Today the city has four radio stations and a television station that broadcast in Spanish, as well as a score of Spanish-language newspapers and magazines. Well-to-do Cubans gather daily at the Big Five Club (initiation fee per family: $2,000), a country club made up of members of five of pre-Castro Havana's most prestigious clubs. Bowntown at the American Club, members of the Cuban-American business establishment meet for lunch and a friendly game...
Diners are emptying salt shakers into plastic packages-or taking the shaker itself-for home consumption. Even at tony establishments run by Manhattan's Restaurant Associates, well-to-do customers are making off with people-bags filled with everything from fruit to nutcrackers...
...complaint was familiar enough, but the specifics were startlingly new. In a document that quickly circulated throughout the country, priests charged that Thieu had profited handsomely from housing and land deals, that his wife Nguyen Thi Mai had taken a rake-off from running a hospital that admits mostly well-to-do patients, and that his brother-in-law Nguyen Xuan Nguyen had made hundreds of millions of piasters in fertilizer speculation...