Word: well-to-do
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Overall, Harris' group estimates that the tax code provides $25 billion in "welfare for the rich." Brookings economists Joseph Pechman and Benjamin Ochner go even further, asserting that Federal tax subsidies--which favor mainly the well-to-do -- amount to $77 billion...
...more concerned with money, and was merely tempting us with the other demands, an important point was missed--if the "financial" demands of the Union are not met, undergraduate education will suffer. The Administration's Kraus plan, in demanding parental support for graduate education, clearly favors students from well-to-do backgrounds...
Baseballs. Actually, there are enough attractions within Port-au-Prince to occupy tourists for the good part of a week. In the well-to-do Lyles district, there are the remarkable Victorian gingerbread houses, with intricately carved balustrades and spires, that are now commanding Stateside real estate prices. At the Iron Market, beneath a twin-spired iron roof, hundreds of Haitian entrepreneurs haggle with tourists over the price of wood carvings, sisal mats, dolls and hundreds of other products displayed in crowded stalls. There is the formal city hall, outlined at night with strings of glowing light bulbs...
Chen Chia had gone to Harvard as a young gentleman of the old school. How could it have been otherwise? Only sons of well-to-do families could afford to travel to America and spend several years there. And when he returned home he and his colleagues were a part of the small upper crust of Chinese society...
...responsible for two sets of meetings. Very concerned about the problems of the city, she considers working with the state--on behalf of the young and the elderly as one of her major tasks: "City government does not have that much to do in the lives of the well-to-do," she says, "just things like snow and trash removal. But in the lives of the elderly and young, the city provides more than just a caretaker. For example, I spend a lot of time trying to get the state to provide food for the elderly...