Word: well-to-do
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...fruitful and industrious cultivation of genius. He was born in 1809* of a remarkable family. His grandfather was the great, hunchbacked philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, often called the "modern Plato," and the undisputed intellectual leader of German Jewry in the Age of Enlightenment. Felix's father Abraham was a well-to-do banker who regularly rousted his children out of bed at 5 each morning for study and work, recognized their musical talents early, had them baptized, and ran a household that regularly included dinner guests like Hegel and Heine...
...reexamine their doubts. The latest observations of the Loch Ness monster come not from bibulous tourists or imaginative locals but from a group with apparently impeccable credentials: the Boston-based Academy of Applied Science. An organization of inventors, engineers and other science buffs, the academy was founded by a well-to-do patent attorney and M.I.T. physics graduate named Robert H. Rines. For the past three summers, in collaboration with Britain's own Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, academy investigators have kept patient nightly watch on the waters of the loch, using the latest underwater cameras and sonar gear...
Robinson, who lived with his wife Rae on an estate in Stamford, Conn., spent his last years as a well-to-do businessman (banking, insurance, construction, food franchising), a conspicuous Republican-turned-Democrat and a tireless, outspoken champion of civil rights and rehabilitation programs for drug addicts. (The eldest of his three children, Jack Jr., a reformed heroin addict, was killed in an auto accident last year...
...fast depreciation write-offs on plants and machines. The aim is partly to raise revenue, but much more to force companies and well-to-do individuals to pay what McGovern calls their "fair share." In the most memorable line of his campaign, McGovern thundered: "Money made by money should be taxed at the same rate as money made by men." This has touched off a great controversy over capital gains taxes. Supporters of the present tax structure insist that money made by money deserves preferential treatment, in part because it represents the reward for capitalist risk taking. They add that...
Family reunions are curiously without tears. A university student in a pinstriped suit awaits his father, a well-to-do Ugandan architect who will probably not qualify to practice in England. What are his emotions about this turn in the family's fortunes? "It's a bloody inconvenience," he replies. Adds a restaurant owner from Kampala: "There is no big problem. You only have to begin from scratch, work and earn, and slowly, slowly everything will be all right...