Word: well-to-do
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...workers' families are able to set tle down on the canape at night to watch le football matches and the pop-singer contests. More than half of all French workers own a car, and a vacation in Spain or even Greece is no longer the province of the well-to-do Frenchman...
...belong to Negroes, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Greeks, and some old Boston Irish-Catholics. Many of these old Irish families are unwilling to come for medical care into the housing project where they'd have to associate with minority groups. Though the area covered by the center does include some well-to-do middle class homes, like the high rise Jamaica Towers luxury apartments, most of the people are chronically poor...
...financially starved educational system ranked 38th nationally in dollars spent per pupil, not to mention the illiteracy rate and median school years completed. It ranked dead last among ten Southern states in school expenditures as a percentage of personal income. Yet, thanks largely to the suburban outflow of well-to-do Washingtonians, Virginia's voters today are the wealthiest citizens in the entire South...
...BORN in a small Catholic town in Italy. A town where everybody knew everybody else, 7000 people. My mother came from a well-to-do land-owning family, large, patriarchal. My grandfather had 24 people in his household at one time. My father's family was more in the businessman's style, small merchants. In Italy, my father had a sort of little business, leasing forests for wood to use for lumber and coal. But then the coal industry got bad 'cause of gas being used. So his business went dead. Instead of starting another business he came...
Diminutive, dark-eyed Elizabeth, who comes from a well-to-do Caracas family, first met Debray when he visited Venezuela in 1964 to film Castroite guerrillas in the hills for French television. Moving in the same left-wing circles in Caracas and sharing the same interest in philosophy, the two saw a lot of each other, began living together on and off in Paris and Cuba. When Réis left Cuba and went on to tie up with the guerrillas in Bolivia last year, Elizabeth stayed behind on the island, then flew to Paris after Debray's arrest...