Word: well-to-do
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...independence in foreign affairs. He picked the relatively underpaid nationalized workers to prove his toughness in the face of inflationary wage claims. Then, too, there was Heath's minibudget, whose combination of tax cuts and rollbacks in social services is now seen by some to benefit only the well-to-do or the very poor. More and more, Britons are beginning to wonder whether Heath's critics are on to something when they say that he is not so tough as he is simply unfeeling...
...main buildings. The Coop, founded in 1882 to provide students with an alternative to the price-gouging of the Square's merchants, began to act like a department store, complete with men's department, ladies department, house waves department, and apartment department. Even a Beau Coup for the well-to-do swinger, although its prices are lower that Krackerjacks. The Coop was slowly becoming all things to all people...
...Writer Jeff Moss, a veteran of the Captain Kangaroo show. Three weeks before taping, Moss and his writers develop a script. Theoretically, their ideal viewer is poor and culturally deprived. Actually, the show catches the preschooler almost before his society does. Thus Sesame Street is as popular with the well-to-do as it is with the slum dweller. The kids may spark to the astonishing variety of material, but no sketch is without its preordained aim. A game is played under the academic umbrella of "Environment and Multiple Classification." Jet-plane and subway sound effects are listed under "Auditory...
...priced imports as easily as they now do, and prices of U.S.-made goods will rise faster because of less competition from abroad. The costs. Brimmer declares, will be borne disproportionately by the poor, who must spend a larger slice of their income on shoes and clothing than the well-to-do. These costs would be multiplied if imports of many other foreign products were limited under the trigger mechanism...
...says Stowell, caught syphilis in the West Indies while touring the world in his late teens. At 21, he was "gazetted to a commission in the army ... He resigned his commission shortly after the raiding of some premises in Cleveland St., which were frequented by aristocrats and well-to-do homosexuals...