It is commonly thought of as a disease of affluence.
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Rowe grew up in affluence on Manhattan's Central Park West.
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But the affluence, and the luxury travel, are not universal.
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The satire of bourgeois affluence can seem glib and overextended.
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Mr Netanyahu's popular support is based largely on Israel's economic affluence.
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Gayness has become synonymous with affluence, bigotry with the working class.
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Now I see it is the surplus and affluence of America.
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However, Archer pointed out that not everyone was experiencing this affluence.
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China's growing affluence has led to greater expectations among its people.
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I think increased affluence also has something to do with it.
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Mr. Tang was born into affluence in Hong Kong on Aug.
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Maybe her brightness and ambient affluence are too "debutante" for them.
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Clinton's tax plans are also designed to promote broader-based affluence.
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And in turn, what the moviegoing audience attaches to affluence — moral value?
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It's about the influence of affluence, and the aspiration to be wealthy.
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But "Affluence Without Abundance" is not simply a description of Bushman life.
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For newer arrivals, it's about "creating a display of affluence," she said.
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The region is grubbier than you would expect, given its relative affluence.
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Orange County is known for its affluence, and for its tourist industry.
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"Today with the affluence of text, voice has really disappeared," she said.
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Or give 'em a tax break, to cushion the agony of affluence?
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Persuade someone to read "Affluence Without Abundance" in less than 50 words.
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They believe modern affluence itself will have to go to save the planet.
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But then industrialization happened, introducing new ideas about the body, gender, and affluence.
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I just want enough affluence so that when I'm asked, 'Still or sparkling?
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Yarrow sees the caseless phone as a way to quietly signal your affluence.
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Jonathan Wells "His success, his affluence, he was really fun," Wells told BuzzFeed News.
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Two Rivers feels a bit like a Potemkin village, projecting an illusion of affluence.
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"Maybe it was more of a class thing, and an affluence thing," Colter says.
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Clinton's strength were diversity and affluence — which augured well for her in New York.
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Instead, L'Oreal is pinning its hopes on the growing affluence of China's middle class.
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In fact, when their welfare states threatened their affluence, they beat a hasty retreat.
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Clinton had an edge in our estimate for a simple reason: diversity and affluence.
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Most of the time, they're peddling you a regular humdrum American ideology of affluence.
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The rising cost of services is an unavoidable side effect of rising affluence generally.
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Throughout, Priestley gently reminds us of the ephemerality of affluence in a teetering economy.
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Real affluence, she said, belonged to her friends who traveled on a private plane.
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He is an acute observer of nuances of affluence and class, that eternal British theme.
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What also helps lead to grounded children who grow up in affluence is setting boundaries.
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But today austerity is unnerving citizens for whom affluence and stellar growth are the norm.
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Political scientists showed long ago that voting goes hand in glove with affluence and education.
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Nations like the one I serve should not be the collateral damage to others' affluence.
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These islands of affluence are secluded behind imposing walls topped with spikes and security cameras.
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And countless songs and albums are titled after or feature luxury brands as symbols of affluence.
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As friends used their connections and affluence to waltz into responsible jobs, he was left behind.
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To achieve true affluence, people need to be able to specialize and trade with one another.
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Chains that cater to a spectrum of income levels and affluence have seen their sales dwindle.
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Residents shake their heads and blame corruption, potholes, undisciplined drivers and growing affluence for the jams.
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Some are handicapped by diseases of affluence: they drink too much alcohol, smoke, or are obese.
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But let's be clear: A defining characteristic of the tribe using these workout spaces is affluence.
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Monaco is a magnet for the wealthy and the elite thanks to its glamour and affluence.
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Yuppiedom described a specific oily demeanor and pattern of consumption as much as it implied affluence.
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This affluence is represented by the baroque decor of the Winter Palace (now the Hermitage Museum).
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One theory holds that consumers like to buy expensive wine to signal their affluence and sophistication.
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But LA is more than just the generic fame and affluence depicted on TV and film.
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Is the right to health only relevant for those with influence or affluence in the U.S.?
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There is, he said, growing global affluence, with more tourists making multiple purchases during their trips.
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Ultimately, affluence, respectability, and their light complexions couldn't save them from the humiliations of Jim Crow.
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Nowadays, having a smartphone isn't an indicator of affluence any more than having a toothbrush is.
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Just how far and how wide do these tactics extend throughout the corridors of affluence in America?
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Gress adds that, contrasting the affluence flooding into the city is becoming more friendly to passionate DIYers.
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Bottom line: The 244 Mazda CX-2000 is perfect for midsize to large families of reasonable affluence.
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Thanks to growing affluence and the GI Bill, millions more students were entering America's colleges and universities.
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But the dispersed affluence of the Tejano population has yet to concentrate in the Rio Grande Valley.
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His affluence enabled him to donate almost $2 million to his party for its 2016 election campaign.
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That affluence, combined with traditional values, has led to some of the country's most compelling apparent paradoxes.
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Santa Barbara is known for its affluence, with many celebrities purchasing houses (er, mansions) in the area.
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But the scale of the affluence accumulated over the last few decades is clear enough here too.
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This supposed affluence was not even real except for a privileged sector of largely white gay men.
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Busyness implies hard work, which implies good character, a strong education, and either present or future affluence.
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The 'culture of affluence' Luthar says there are plenty of reasons why people get uneasy about this topic.
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Consequently, they don't ace tests like the SAT (dubbed the "Student Affluence Test" by The Wall Street Journal).
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Combatting the myth of affluence, researchers have pieced together data showing a vulnerability to poverty for LGBT people.
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A magnet for the 1%, the French Riviera city-state has a worldwide reputation for glamour and affluence.
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But the Bay Area's diversity and affluence make it a tossup region or potentially even one where Mrs.
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Black poverty on the Northside contrasts sharply with White affluence in the south, and in the surrounding suburbs.
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All were constructed at the height of Flint's affluence, in the 1950s and '60s, and remain vital today.
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Kaabi-Linke's lyrical abstraction, safely tucked within signifiers of affluence and prestige, yields to the horrors of war.
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The concentration of wealth along America's coast afforded those with affluence access, and in turn, surfing grew whiter.
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Politicians and policy wonks worry about the persistence of poverty across generations, but affluence is inherited more strongly.
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" Ramon Llamas, research director at market research firm IDC, said that Swiss watches personified "luxury, position and affluence.
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Under the siren song of affluence, we began offshoring critical production capacity in the 1960s for geopolitical reasons.
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The contrast between dos Santos's affluence and her compatriots' misery is particularly sharp, but she is not alone.
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We also talk to them about avoiding visible affluence because it really changes the way people perceive you.
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Key urban areas have already been covered, while less populated areas have lower affluence than the national average.
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The result is uneven distribution of wealth, which keeps poor neighborhoods poor and limits potential spillover effects of affluence.
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In another era, student poverty might have meant a brief period of hardship during a life of relative affluence.
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The iPhone is a classic symbol of the kind of mass affluence China covets for its 1.4 billion population.
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Rigidly controlled North Korean state media usually give ordinary people little exposure to the affluence of their Asian neighbors.
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But the affluence of such prominent figures masks a bleak reality: Many people in the L.G.B.T. community go hungry.
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If the suit-wearing Patrick Batemans of the 1980s no longer embody affluence, what has come to replace them?
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Images of abandoned, half-built golf course developments — where unsold condos overlooked overgrown courses — were reminders of miscalculated affluence.
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This isn't the only inevitable outcome we have when we think about the relationship between cities, affluence and inequality.
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Wermund suggests that the rating structure used by U.S. News, which for better or worse is the gold standard for college rankings, incentivizes schools to engage in policies that favor higher-income students, such as emphasizing the importance of standardized tests (which correlates to affluence) and alumni giving (which really correlates to affluence).
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Ivanka's political efforts might best be described as an extension of her brand, which was always about breezy, cosmopolitan affluence.
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You might think putting a helipad on Trump Tower would give the president's Manhattan residence an added veneer of affluence.
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Chopra, whose books include "Creating Affluence" and "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success," is the master of mindfulness and meditation.
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He appeared to have it all — a private school education, devoted parents, and the affluence to go on expensive vacations.
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The partnership will make partial ownership of what is deemed a pinnacle of affluence more accessible to the general public.
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Today, health, fitness and leading an active lifestyle are powerful ways to express education, affluence, style, work ethic and motivation.
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More broadly, they were markers of one's social status, putting on full view the objects of refined taste and affluence.
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But Clivaz thinks there's room for everyone to play, pointing out the increasing affluence of certain segments of the consumers.
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Affluence (with an attendant interest in fiscal consolidation) and cosmopolitanism (with its socially liberal cultural values) are two obvious sources.
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With less affluence than Westerner counterparts, and many first-time travelers in the region, startups have turned to budget consumers.
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Even in his Manhattan of formal wear, glowing interiors, glittering nighttime streets and leisurely affluence, heartbreak rears its ugly head.
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Boulder's affluence is also a factor, explains Witters, as higher-income people report exercising more often, according to demographic data.
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The remaining states force Mr. Sanders to confront his big weaknesses: affluence, diversity, establishment-friendly areas and closed primary contests.
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This is a guy who always brings his daughter on tour and thinks affluence is a big day at Bloomingdale's.
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Rachel Sherman, a professor of sociology at the New School and author of "Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, " agreed.
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What further complicated matters was the fact that English did not experience his new affluence with a gust of elation.
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These presents used to be simple items but, as the country's affluence has increased, many modern couples choose costly items.
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Those born into affluence are much more likely to fall down the income scale over the course of their lives.
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As our political authorities demonstrate with disappointing consistency, personal affluence does not necessarily foster a generous or fair-minded worldview.
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Its veneer of calm, even affluence, is at odds with the growing hatred against the group elsewhere in the country.
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Pinker continues: Over the longer run, I think the forces of modernity prevail — affluence, education, mobility, communication, and generational replacement.
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This also speaks to the nationwide emphasis on the country's top schools as a means of future success and affluence.
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Our Europe soccer correspondent observes that the power base of English soccer is shifting south, largely thanks to London's affluence.
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It's an understated satire on gentrification, in which multiracial affluence doesn't provide immunity from the ancient clashes of urban life.
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The Maplewood Archie lives in bourgeois affluence as his father becomes obsessed with money and his parents become increasingly estranged.
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This is a part of the draw of a fraud, the self-satisfied affluence that holds up amid so much hoopla.
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The affluence of its characters bolsters the movie's fairy-tale feel while functioning as lifestyle porn for its teenage target audience.
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Prosecutors maintain Ms. Ortega killed the children because she resented the Krims' affluence and was angry over her own financial straits.
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Castro's grandson, Antonio's son Tony, maintains an Instagram account dedicated to capturing all the affluence he's enjoyed the past few years.
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The economic slowdown and political upheaval of the '280s marked a crisis of legitimacy for a social order based on affluence.
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Analysts said Singapore's relative affluence and westernization, as well as good infrastructure, made the country a prime candidate for Amazon's expansion.
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In Killing, body hair is but one metonym for pointless virility, along with the more abstract signifiers of authority and affluence.
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Their poses reflected the portraiture styles of the day; their suits, elaborate dresses, and starched collars, and pocket watches exude affluence.
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Black bougie folks often pride themselves on going to the best schools and only engaging in activities associated with affluence and elegance.
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Even in a haven of affluence, "guys who say 'Alahu akbar' buy alcohol under the table in a plastic bag," he explained.
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Perhaps the most powerful message from Mr Odinga's ultimately failed campaign was the claim that Kenya's affluence is not reaching the poor.
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Its affluence is visible; not many of Scotland's seaside towns of 15,000 or so can boast a Waitrose and a private school.
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The large number of Russians in the city has earned it the nickname "Londongrad," and speculation over the source of that affluence.
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There might be a Great Affluence Fallacy going on — we want privacy in individual instances, but often this makes life generally worse.
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I'd also note that the affluence and establishment-friendly politics of Northern Virginia probably blunt Trump's appeal more here than anywhere else.
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In fact, across ages, being female was a better predictor for poor body image and dieting than BMI or family affluence. Yikes.
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Does the gold chain that hangs below an elegant woman's profile suggest glamor and affluence, or do we immediately think of enslavement?
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But Ms. McCaskill has made missteps in recent weeks that have highlighted her affluence and helped give traction to Mr. Hawley's attacks.
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Its green-and-white logo holds an aura of affluence in China, and the company has won intense loyalty among many Chinese.
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Human impact on the natural environment is summed up in a simple formula: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology All are rising.
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He assumes that the affluence of the ship is built on the exploitation of other races and the oppression of the poor.
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Dershowitz's career is a testament to the effects that celebrity, affluence, and fame can have on even the most formidable legal minds.
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Why it matters: Delayed retirement is a sign of health and affluence for some and a continued life of hardship for others.
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Money is an issue; Marie comes from affluence, while Boris, a contractor who refers to himself as an architect, rarely has any.
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There is no shortage of affluence in Santa Monica or Malibu, two sun-kissed coastal communities with elegant homes and designer boutiques.
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Mr. Tower, an epicure raised as a lonely child amid chilly affluence, attended Harvard around the late 1960s before finding his calling.
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This diverse force feels betrayed by trade and tax policies that create immense affluence at the top and take wealth from workers.
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Interested in art rather than domesticity, she bristled at the predictable lifestyle of affluence and left married life, as it turned out, permanently.
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She had visited other homes that had fine food and lavish amenities, reflecting the affluence of the couple's southern Chinese home town, Guangzhou.
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It's as if New York, now softened by safety and affluence, is in the position of trying to sell itself back to itself.
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Unless you're Mother Teresa, at one point in your life, you've been motivated by the prospect of gaining access, affluence, and actual dollars.
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On average, male Hong Kongers live for 81.3 years and women for 87.3, helped by the city's affluence and low incidence of smoking.
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But the writing drives it into what can best be summed up as unadulterated Caucasian nonsense that's equal parts melodrama, affluence, and Dynasty.
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The racial element inherent to our fascination with this previously unimaginable kind of affluence is neatly summed up in the film's opening scene.
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The rising affluence of these same groups most likely diminished the economic appeal of the Democratic message over the last century as well.
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Is that maybe one of the practical benefits of having a more transparent conversation about affluence, that money would be redistributed more fairly?
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That's the case for Tom Aley, an entrepreneur whose affluence allowed him to leave a high-paying job and start his own business.
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Neither city nor country, suburbia — at least in the imagination of too many novelists, filmmakers and songwriters to count — yokes affluence to alienation.
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She urged me to keep writing about the shocking affluence of the student body at many selective private colleges and flagship public universities.
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And while Chris's is cushioned in an affluence that Kay has never known, they both carry a legacy of racially mixed sexual relationships.
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Bong Joon-ho and his talented cast say yes, nimbly taking the viewer into this world that's brimming with affluence, possibility, and freedom.
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It was a tradition of male affluence, to be sure, and Thatcher might well have felt that she couldn't let her guard down.
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But the debutante-party circuit, a staple of New York high society for generations, endures in the city's new era of extreme affluence.
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"We recognize that Parkland received more attention because of its affluence," Jaclyn Corin, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, said in her speech.
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For years, internships — one of the first opportunities to make connections on the Capitol Hill — were unpaid, thinning the applicant pool by affluence.
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Both approaches have merit, and winners and losers vary depending on a saver's affluence and tax bracket at the time of contribution and withdrawal.
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Having a Black family as the stand-in for all-American suburban affluence already subverts some tired genre tropes, but Peele doesn't stop there.
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"Mitigation efforts haven't worked because the carbon footprint increases strongly with an increase in affluence and decreases weakly with improvements in technology," Malik noted.
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Meanwhile in civilian life the spread of the motor car, along with growing affluence that allowed more people to travel, expanded the private market.
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"The kitchen is original and the opulent furnishings represent the style and affluence in which the Trumps would have lived," the Airbnb listing says.
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But prior to modern presidential times, separate bedrooms weren't "all that unusual," since the arrangement had long been a sign of affluence and privilege.
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But this instant affluence fades as people develop a more conscientious grasp on their income and eventually spending decreases, returning to a normal pattern.
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The economic importance of these jobs is secondary to what they represent: the relative white affluence and privilege of the immediate post-war era.
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But the affluence of the Bay Area and Los Angeles will hurt him there, just as it did in New York City's liberal bastions.
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Political scientists have long argued that once individuals reach a certain level of affluence they become interested in non-material values, including political choice.
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Many previously marginalized indigenous groups saw their power and affluence rise significantly under Morales, a former coca grower who was Bolivia's first indigenous president.
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These states aren't as bad for him as those in the South, but they force him to confront his two weaknesses: diversity and affluence.
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Whole lyrics are devoted to brands ("Phillippe Patek" / "Alexander Wang ( woo!)"), and the pair describe their affluence as regal, presidential, and, at times, animalistic.
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It's this geographic separation of people, these clusters of extreme affluence on the one hand and concentrated pockets of poverty on the other hand.
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The overall mood was mid-2000s corporate affluence; the front desk told me guest rooms are slated for minor tweaks, but not major upgrades.
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With "Junk," the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines financial chicanery in the 272s — and how it shaped the blind worship of affluence today.
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The new administration may be contributing to Washington's affluence, but big money is also coming from start-ups and newcomers from out of town.
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All of which makes this primarily working-class suburb of roughly 4773,000 a hub of commerce surrounded by affluence and some lovely water vistas.
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It's one of the nicest parts of Karachi, filled with the kind of people who might buy Hanif's books, but its affluence is deceptive.
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Population swells, climate change, soil degradation, erosion, poaching, global food prices and even the benefits of affluence are exerting incredible pressure on African land.
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However, as affluence in the region grows, a growth in demand for other types of aviation, such as private luxury jets, can be expected.
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With "Junk," the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines financial chicanery in the 1980s — and how it shaped the blind worship of affluence today.
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Greek photographer Niko J. Kallianiotis's earliest memory of America is from Astoria, Queens, where he witnessed the shocking dichotomy between big-city affluence and homelessness.
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Ironically, the film's success is linked to one of the most common criticisms waged against it: that the movie uses affluence to sell its diversity.
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In movies, most often adaptations, affluence and luxury have been a way for Hollywood to make something esoteric or niche appeal to more mainstream audiences.
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Rich-country problems The point is that the US is a very affluent country, relatively speaking, and with affluence typically comes ... more cars per family.
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"Our strategy is very much in line with changing demographics and the growing affluence of young professionals," said Chief Executive Officer Nguyen Le Quoc Anh.
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To triumph in a likely December run-off he will need to address middle-class demands for the country's affluence to be more fairly distributed.
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Typical measures of affluence don't seem to apply: Sprawling, multilevel homes surrounded by fleets of gleaming trucks sit next to dilapidated trailers and auto junkyards.
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The influx of money can be seen in the relative affluence of the Procter & Gamble employees, most of whom drive Japanese-made cars to work.
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But it sounds tone-deaf if you're part of the majority of America, which isn't enjoying the escalating affluence inside the bubbles along the coasts.
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But if Guadagnino's film presents affluence as a pathway to self-actualization, one must wonder how many people will ever get to walk that path.
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Camille is treated like the mangled corpse of whatever the cat dragged in, an infuriating blemish on Adora's perfect reputation of Southern values and affluence.
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"Everybody else would form perceptions about me based on it, but it didn't affluence my perception of myself at all, which led to some awkwardness."
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"With rising affluence we expect commercial health insurance to cover more people across Greater China, which will divert patience toward the private sector," said Gregersen.
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And it's true that in today's globalised and rampantly marketed sport, a club's affluence does not depend on that of its fans or its city.
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" Like the yellow badge worn by Warsaw's Jews, Cayton and Drake noted, Chicago's blacks, "regardless of their affluence or respectability, wear the badge of color.
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The stark contrast between the tech sector's affluence and the poverty that surrounds it has become a mark of shame that has drawn international condemnation.
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The growing affluence and educational attainment of white Democrats might give them a much better chance of earning a turnout advantage than in the past.
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But more importantly, it casually dismisses those hardships using existing luxury concepts like palanquins, vehicles that have long been signifiers of affluence and high status.
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But if Americans' unease amid affluence tells us anything, it's that we won't fix what's ailing our economy until we rebuild our fraying social contract.
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" Rachel Sherman is a professor of sociology at the New School, an Andrew Carnegie fellow and the author of "Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence.
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More importantly, we have for decades lived under a political framework known as affluence, a term popularized by economist John Kenneth Galbraith in the 1950s.
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Taiwan's far more spectacular rise to affluence was steered by electrical engineers who consulted economists and enlisted market forces but were never ruled by them.
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The result is a carefully observed study of class and race, whose portrait of white urban affluence—Everlane sweaters, pseudo-feminist babble—is especially pointed.
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My rideshare pulled into the driveway and shared the lane with Ferraris, Porches, and Teslas, a clear indicator of the affluence of the hotel's guests.
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But here's another question that few ask: Why don't conservatives and liberals get as agitated over preferences based on affluence as they do about race?
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Brooklyn's overall return to affluence in the 21st century has been a remarkable event, and it is one that Hymowitz describes with an unmistakable relish.
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Be it the blandness of affluence or the pain of personal difficulty, there has always been an element of aspiration and fantasy to popular culture.
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Tell me a throw down drag race between a Bentley Bentayga and a Tesla Model X P90D isn't the most perfect example of affluence meets nerdery.
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Cutbacks have hit Qatar's vast migrant workforce the hardest but locals - for whom affluence and stellar economic growth have been the norm - have also been affected.
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It recently opened its third concept store in Bangkok (after Taipei and Manila), which shows its strategic focus in the growing affluence of Asian gamers first.
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If you had money and you were hip, you expressed your renegade affluence by positioning a West Elm vase on top of a $573,000 Biedermeier chest.
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And he understands, as Berlusconi did, that extreme bluntness mitigates extraordinary affluence, giving a plutocrat a bridge to, and bond with, the common man or woman.
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Sidelined early in the power struggle to succeed his father, Kim Jong-nam went on to live a life of affluence in exile, largely in China.
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Instagram has become a place where wealthy millennials can raft an image of affluence and exert their influence, and it's opened the door for fake influencers.
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They offer a taste of a growing global threat: Across the world, thanks in part to rising affluence, travel is becoming a more widely shared pastime.
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The sociologist Rachel Sherman's new book, "Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence," draws on her interviews with 50 wealthy New Yorkers to give us a sense.
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So convincing is his masquerade of affluence that when he asks a rich tennis partner for a loan, the other man assumes that Giovanni is joking.
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Americans feel relatively protected from attack, both by oceans and by the relative affluence and assimilation of its Muslim population, which is small by European standards.
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A populist conservative, Mr. Ahmadinejad had a strong following among poor Iranians, many of whom resented the affluence that endeared Mr. Rafsanjani to his wealthier compatriots.
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Chicago, Sampson wrote, is "experiencing a concentrated affluence shift," in which the black population has declined and Hispanics are now second largest after whites in population.
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Affluence politics is not the politics of being wealthy, though, but rather the politics of not paying attention to what creates wealth in the first place.
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Regardless, the end of affluence politics means focusing on whether medicine is on shelves, not bitter disputes over bloated and wasteful hospital and insurance billing departments.
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Traditional paths to affluence, which involve participating in international trade and moving up the value chain, may become infeasible as rungs in the economic ladder disappear.
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It wasn't long ago that robot vacuums were something of a joke, more a statement of affluence or potential cat car than a convenient household tool.
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Flashback: In early 2013, a NYT story famously coined the "hipsturbia" term when young creatives fled Brooklyn's growing affluence for communities like Dobbs Ferry or Tarrytown.
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Stark comes from a place of intense privilege, affluence, and ego; he wouldn't know a fallacy if it sat on his sad excuse for facial hair.
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For two seasons, I Am Cait shone a spotlight on issues faced by the trans community, even while some argued that Jenner's affluence offered a skewed lens.
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Beyond the heavily armed gates of this affluent community lie hundreds upon hundreds of gaudy, western-style mansions that celebrate the decadence and affluence of Kurdistan's elites.
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Level of affluence did not influence results: Those with $1 million to $5 million, and those with over $5 million, have almost the same views, percentage-wise.
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Reardon and Bischoff write: Segregation of affluence not only concentrates income and wealth in a small number of communities, but also concentrates social capital and political power.
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"The combination of the richest White House in history and a boom in government-related businesses and technology companies is transforming Washington's affluence into opulence," he wrote.
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A similar phenomenon exists in the United States, where gas-guzzlers symbolize nearly every cliche point of American pride: affluence, capability for individual expression, and personal freedoms.
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"That is her mantra, and it is true for a large majority of the people in Germany," Mr. Butterwegge said of the chancellor's line about German affluence.
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At 28, on his way to Germany in 1935, Varian Fry of New York, born to affluence and Protestant probity, was just such an impressionable young man.
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Yet now, the combination of the richest White House in history and a boom in government-related businesses and technology companies is transforming Washington's affluence into opulence.
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What we don't have is any kind of human touch for people who may be on the higher end of the affluence scale who need more complex advice.
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The imposing homes were once a symbol of affluence and taste during the Gilded Age, a period of American history marked by political corruption and severe income inequality.
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Like the McMansions of today, these houses made use of lopsided and often mismatched architecture that was meant to show off the affluence of their Victorian-era residents.
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For their part, South Korean loudspeakers denounced hunger and human rights violations in the North, highlighting the number of cars and other signs of affluence in the South.
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Greater affluence has made it easier for many people to contemplate living alone—no longer is there such an incentive to stay married in order to pool resources.
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Asian American success is often impeded by the "model minority myth," the false stereotype that we exist in a monolithic community defined by graduate degrees, affluence, and success.
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Despite Australia's general affluence and quality of life, the country's indigenous Aboriginal population still falls far behind the rest of the country on a number of social indicators.
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In the United States in particular, mass production enabled a culture of mass waste in which middle-class affluence was synonymous with the reckless expenditure of natural resources.
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They may inspire dramatically different policy prescriptions, based on your age, race, gender, partisan affiliation, level of affluence, place of residence, source of news, or multiple other factors.
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These two factors — affluence and diversity — make it very hard to imagine Mr. Sanders sweeping the remaining states, let alone winning them collectively by more than 10 points.
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" His letter included this plea for help for his countrymen: "O ye, who revel in affluence, see the afflictions of humanity and bestow your superfluity to ease them.
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Greater affluence has contributed to a trend toward wine-drinking — once the preserve of the rich — rather than the beer and spirits favored by the less well-off.
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The answer may be found in an odd confluence of two forces in 21st-century China: rising affluence and the resurgence of practices associated with traditional Chinese medicine.
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Affluence also means China will graduate from e-bikes to regular cars, but the cost of electric vehicles is out of reach for most, another investor source said.
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My father, who rose from Depression-era poverty in Scranton, Pa., to modest affluence as a New York City businessman, tried to set me straight on the subject.
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Despite the areas' relative affluence, the cap on state and local tax deductions and other factors such as rising health-care costs have exacerbated cost of living concerns there.
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She knows that they're rich and proud, but the visit – for Nick's old friend's wedding – will test and stretch the meaning of pride and affluence as Rachel knows it.
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But she did tell me she could empathize with them, and after reading her book, Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, you should be able to do the same.
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He's the embodiment of the Trump administration's ethos that you're entitled to take a whack at something by dint of affluence and arrogance, not because of any manifest expertise.
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The strongest predictor of a student's score "is affluence of parents and education of parents," said Steve Syverson, a vice chancellor for enrollment at the University of Washington Bothell.
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Rather than admit students by grades, test scores or auditions, which tends to turn schools into enclaves of affluence, these schools admit them by lottery, with no admissions standards.
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Rising affluence in formerly poor countries is also putting upward pressure on grain prices, said Lucas White, manager of the GMO Climate Change Fund, which caters to institutional investors.
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I could also see how so many Italians — and plenty of other Westerners — feel that they live in some perverse shadow of affluence, and how anger and cynicism flower.
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While it has seen a remarkable infusion of affluence in the last 10 years, pockets of poverty and crime have endured in areas like East New York and Brownsville.
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The "affluence elasticity of food waste" is a new concept from this study that finds food waste increases quickly at first, then the increase "tapers off" as wealth grows.
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Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family's dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff.
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This affluence is what allowed Weinstein, a man accused of crimes including rape, sex abuse, and sexual misconduct, to continue to buy his freedom and appear at the fundraiser.
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Her brand is geared toward a lifestyle and affluence to which most women can only aspire, and broadly, many of her efforts on the feminism front have fallen short.
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"A rise in air-passenger traffic coming from increasing consumer affluence and improving infrastructure supports the strength in Asian jet fuel demand growth," said Sri Paravaikkarasu of energy consultancy FGE.
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India's rising affluence and growing numbers of working women have spurred demand for such workers, and campaigners say there are likely to be millions more working in the unregulated sector.
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Cloaking creativity in the language of commerce seems anathema, but this was electroclash baby, it was all about the trappings of wealth and playing around with the concept of affluence.
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Ho Chi Minh City's rapid modernization has seen a surge in affluence among both locals and expats, and it would appear that among them are many big banh mi fans.
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It is not like any stone that has been used in such quantity anywhere else in New York, and it gives off a glow of happy, if self-satisfied, affluence.
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If affluence is in the eye of the beholder, then even the super-rich, when they compare their situation with that of the ultra-rich, can feel sorry for themselves.
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Leading Affluence Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of YXP, took YXP's place as the issuer of the 2023 senior unsecured notes, which were issued under YXP's medium-term note programme.
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There's also the growing affluence of the Bay Area as a whole, which may be breeding a new kind of distaste or even hatred of manifestations of poverty, advocates say.
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As Matt Stoller argued in Wired, the pandemic has potentially brought America to the cusp of a radical reimagining of how we perceive the nature of affluence in our society.
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There are people who do not like Gwyneth Paltrow — the fact that she named her first child after an orchard fruit (Apple) or her Goop lifestyle brand or her affluence.
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Affluence and pageantry fills the Victorian-era clubhouse and grandstand, where a bottle of water sells for $6, and a recent auction of horses rang up $53 million in sales.
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Tent encampments — Oakland city officials count 103 of them — are now as much a part of the landscape as the bars and restaurants that cater to the city's rising affluence.
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The outside world typically sees Britain through the affluence and cosmopolitanism of London, but other than one quick stop there, I went elsewhere, looking for people beyond the capital's glare.
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"Most of these youngest consumers have yet to reach the level of affluence that will allow them to increase their active interest in diamonds," said the 2018 Diamond Insight Report.
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Instead of focusing on themselves, those aspiring for affluence should look to help others, according to self-made multi-millionaire Chatri Sityodtong — a powerhouse in Asia's mixed martial arts (MMA) industry.
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"When you look at this globally, blood pressure is a condition of poverty, not affluence," said Majit Ezzati, professor of global environmental health at Imperial College London, who led the analysis.
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Arunima Malik, a sustainability assessment researcher at the University of Sydney and one of the study's authors, said the team found that there is a positive relationship between affluence and emissions.
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For her book, Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, Sherman interviewed 50 wealthy New York parents, many of whom emphasized how frugal they were and how "normal" their spending habits were.
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After all, time is the most valuable commodity we have, to the point where our consideration of it as a type of currency has given it its own term, time affluence.
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"In both Norway and Sweden, whose economies are literally dwarfed by the size of our affluence and the extent of our technology, they have no unemployment and no slums," King said.
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Japanese text was an inescapable attribute of vaporwave's visual identity, but most producers were often young white men in the West, channeling a language they, troublingly, associated with 80s tech affluence.
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It's that the economy and our political system, even as they promise equality, are stacked against us: From America's beginning, slave labor funded the affluence of those who counted as citizens.
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People have derided Ms. Choi, who has no background in government or policy making, as an "ajumma," or homemaker, "from Gangnam," a Seoul district often associated with affluence and moral weakness.
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"Despite the fact that all the youth in our study possessed health insurance, we found disparities by race and family affluence, suggesting that they may be particularly at risk," Wang said.
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It was only when she relocated to Los Angeles four years ago that the markers of her childhood — strip malls, senior citizens, an air of affluence — started to inspire to her.
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Ms. Cervantes, who was born into affluence in Tijuana, grew up with the notion that it "was just dust, gas stations and prostitutes, and not a real cultural place," she said.
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" Hochschild suggests that Rose's story should speak to us because in our new Gilded Age, "the appeal of making that magical leap from poverty to great affluence is once again resurgent.
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"This is an anomaly based on the race of the officer, and the race and affluence of the victim," said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights lawyer and activist in Minneapolis.
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The dire financial situation risks creating "a sort of a world of increasingly private affluence with public squalor," said Tony Travers, a professor of government at the London School of Economics.
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In addition to gaining political voice, Irish and African Americans, to use Heer's examples, also grew in affluence and became consumer markets to which products — including pop culture — could be sold.
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The community is known for its affluence, diversity and liberal politics, and for the large flow of commuters to jobs in newsrooms, television studios and publishing offices in New York City.
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"The rising affluence of Asian households suggests that the region will continue to be the world's biggest growth market for health care, education, financial services, entertainment and other services," BCG said.
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Here he's translating "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" — Princeton philosopher Peter Singer's very famous case for why we're all donating way less money than we should be to charities that save people's lives.
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"Thousands and thousands of pills magnify the obsessive ostentatiousness that is still common today in our society where affluence means everything, and status prevails of possessing the desire of others," he says.
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More than the lakefront, the Chicago River belongs to the people, reaching neighborhoods outside of the downtown hub and interacting with communities of varying affluence, racial makeup, and distances to the lake.
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In a 2003 research paper called "The Culture of Affluence," she pointed to a range of factors that are unique to wealthy, upwardly mobile America, which present their own kinds of challenges.
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China's conservative attitude, ushered in by the Communist Party when it took power in 1949, has slowly been changing — helped by growing affluence, more overseas travel and exposure to foreign popular culture.
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She lectured on the pernicious effects of soda and juices — lost days of school, lost days of work and tooth decay in a nation where white teeth are a sign of affluence.
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Beyond a certain level of comfort and security, seeking affluence can impose high emotional and physical tolls — including insecurity, depression, and a reduced sex drive — even when we get what we want!
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He has an Op-Ed in this morning's Times about the dignity of work and about "trade and tax policies that create immense affluence at the top and take wealth from workers."
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The study also found that wealth as measured separately by household income and median neighborhood income was highly correlated with racial identity, supporting previous research showing that affluence "whitens" racial self-identification.
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Luxury spending among affluent households in the United States was predicted to spike by 0003 percent over the past year, according to the 2015 Survey of Affluence and Wealth from Time Inc.
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Younger people, accustomed to affluence, are less willing to shoulder the financial burden of reconciliation or reunification, a wariness reflected in the drop in President Moon Jae-in's popularity in recent days.
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Raised in quasi-aristocratic affluence, Ms. Hogg had been working as a fashion editor and a photographer's agent when she answered an ad in 1981 seeking someone to edit a decorating magazine.
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Mr. Cao set up Fuyao Group in 1987 here in southeastern China's Fujian Province and quickly cashed in as growing affluence led tens of millions of Chinese to buy their first cars.
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Many at Monterey, like Dusty Baker, were members of the first wave of baby boomers, moving into adulthood in an era of unparalleled affluence, but experiencing resentment of their ostensibly comfortable lives.
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Educational and cultural exchanges, similar to those that occurred among the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 85033, could expose North Korean elites to the freedom and affluence of the outside world.
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Researchers said that food waste is not a "problem at low levels of affluence," or in developing countries, and that a so-called "elasticity" or growth in waste occurs as incomes increase.
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Opening on a scene of social privilege and affluence studded with sharp one-liners, the play takes a dark and controversial turn into a world of extortion, mistrust, deception and assisted dying.
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Dr. Yajnik said he believes Indians' susceptibility to diabetes may have emerged as their diets changed with rising affluence — and that their bodies, attuned to scarcity, couldn't handle an overload of food.
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Upon arriving in Paris, my university's administration matched me to an apartment not in the Marais but in Passy, a neighborhood in the Right Bank's 16th arrondissement reputed for its upturned-nose affluence.
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Jimmy Choo, whose towering stilettos were made famous by characters in the popular TV series "Sex and the City," is synonymous with affluence, and somewhat at odds with Kors' image of accessible luxury.
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In 2007, only 13 rhinos were illegally killed for their horns in South Africa, but the numbers then surged to meet demand as affluence grew in Asian economies such as Vietnam and China.
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And while it's up to viewers to decide how they feel about foreign 'wealth porn,' the sheer degree of affluence displayed on screen is enough to make most people's jaws fall right open.
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Although many of the tombs were looted over the years, numerous treasures were discovered in later excavations testifying to the Chu kings' affluence as well as their beliefs in immortality and the afterlife.
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Billionaires, led by Bill Gates and the hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, have quarreled this week with one of the top Democratic contenders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, over the way she talks about affluence.
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Economically—and by extension, temperamentally—this maturation occurred in a different era, one far removed from N.D.G.'s current affluence, where expectations of male behaviour were clearly circumscribed and a masculine ethic prevailed.
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While Southeast Asia's growing affluence is expected to fuel growth in online shopping, many countries in the region still lack the transport and payments infrastructure so crucial to the widespread adoption of ecommerce.
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Then, in 2000, the trend began to reverse and from 2000 to 2010, economic segregation increased in 72 areas as high-poverty and high-affluence neighborhoods began to outnumber mixed-class, middle-income neighborhoods.
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Building what Chopra calls "time affluence," or structuring your day so that you have lots of free time, will increase your life satisfaction and well-being, he wrote for CNBC Make It in 2018.
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This is especially true of Tanda Francis's "Adorn Me." Fort Greene Park is the socioeconomic and racial dividing line of its neighborhood, with one side reflecting whiteness and affluence far more than the other.
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En 2017, le stade Vélodrome de Marseille, deuxième plus grand stade de France, était rempli à craquer pour accueillir Soprano, un rappeur natif de la ville — une affluence inimaginable il y a 15 ans.
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Many diseases once thought to be linked to affluence are now proving to dominate the poorer regions of the world, including obesity, diabetes and cancer, but Ezzati believes blood pressure is hitting them the hardest.
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There are no records of her speaking to media in the past decade, she lives a humble life according to neighbours and the only sign that she is of such affluence is her property portfolio.
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This decline can be traced to rapidly rising productivity in the manufacturing sector — the same output could be produced with fewer workers — combined with shifts in demand toward services, reflecting a rise in consumer affluence.
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Sandberg was both praised and faulted for "Lean In." Many pointed out that her affluence allowed her to assert herself in her jobs while also being a mother, a luxury not available to most people.
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Without the affluence of contemporaries like Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot (both of whose work she considered inferior to her own), she had no means of studying at an academy, much less with a master.
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They simply think the road to salvation lies not through making do with less, but rather through innovation and the conditions in which innovation tends to flourish, greater affluence and individual freedom most of all.
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The political and personal choices that the President makes from the center of the storm also mean he doesn't get the credit he and his fans think he deserves for a new age of economic affluence.
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"It is this youth bulge which we believe is attracting global companies in Pakistan along with the increasing affluence of the middle class," said Suleman Rafiq Maniya, head of research at local brokerage house Shajar Capital.
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The report came amid heightened concern about Germany's rising poverty rate and ability to integrate 1.1 million migrants that have arrived over the past two years, drawn by the country's reputation for affluence, efficiency and stability.
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It's also that prosperity gospel megachurches feed into income inequality with their specious claims that affluence is a reflection of God's approval (and on the flip side, that poverty must come from some absence of faith).
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To the left, a group of white vacationers of various ages and sexes, some nude, are cavorting, with a boat, a windsurfing board and other toys of affluence in shallow turquoise waters off a coastal resort.
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More than 2190 percent of global lead consumption — at around 2000 million tonnes this year — goes toward batteries mainly for autos, demand for which has risen sharply in countries such as China due to growing affluence.
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As The Times reported, Manafort faked an altitude of affluence that he no longer possessed, forgoing any salary as Trump's campaign chairman, because he suspected that this would impress Trump, who has exaggerated his own wealth.
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But a small minority of protesters — 20,000 to 30,000 nationwide in recent weeks — have stuck with the Saturday ritual, attracting increasingly radical and sometimes violent crowds that have targeted symbols of the government or of affluence.
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Bob Linscheid, president and CEO of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, acknowledged that affluence and poverty exist uncomfortably side-by-side in San Francisco, but said any blame cast on the Super Bowl is misplaced.
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When it comes to managing shortages, however, both parties are split, just as they were in 1932, between their Wall Street factions that assume affluence and the less mature populist factions that seek assertive public power.
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Others said that affluence meant never having to worry about money, which many of them, especially those in single-earner families dependent on work in finance, said they did, because earnings fluctuate and jobs are impermanent.
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Rabwah — where portraits of the Ahmadi sect's turbaned founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, are ubiquitous — has a veneer of calm, even affluence, that is at odds with the growing hatred against the sect elsewhere in the country.
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Even so the typical family's wealth was still 30 percent lower than in 2007, when the average family's net worth of nearly $140,000, a reflection of the lasting damage the housing bust inflicted on American affluence.
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Even so the typical family's wealth was still 30 percent lower than in 2007, when the average family's net worth of nearly $583,000, a reflection of the lasting damage the housing bust inflicted on American affluence.
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We see it when white men are given lenient sentences for rape and manslaughter because they have promising futures or because they were raised with such affluence, people think they shouldn't be held responsible for their actions.
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This increase in subscriber growth this quarter came from an affluence of original content, including Stranger Things' third season, which saw 64 million accounts watch the newest season in the first four weeks, according to the company.
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Just behind in concentration of affluence are Maryland (203 percent of households in the highest income group); New Jersey (31 percent), Massachusetts (30 percent), Connecticut (30 percent), Hawaii (29 percent), California (26 percent) and Virginia (26 percent).
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"Singapore's F&B industry is a substantial contributor to the domestic economy and the contribution is increasing due to rising affluence, GDP and population growth, increased popularity of food delivery services," the SGX said in a statement.
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She says the popularity of Chinese food among Jews took off when they moved out of New York City and into local suburbs in the 1950s and 60s; it was the food of growing affluence and assimilation.
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"High blood pressure is no longer related to affluence - as it was in 1975 - but is now a major health issue linked with poverty," said Majid Ezzati, a professor at Imperial College London's school of public health.
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For example, Affluence and Influence finds that the nadir of representativeness was the mid-1960s, when Medicare, the war on poverty, and the Voting Rights Act were enacted; and the peak was George W. Bush's first term.
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According to the researchers, the world should "shift its goals away from the growth of gross domestic product and the pursuit of affluence," since "the climate crisis is closely linked to excessive consumption of the wealthy lifestyle."
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I began to regret that alcohol hadn't been served when one student brought up the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness," in which Will Smith's character performs superhumanly well at his job to leap from homelessness to affluence.
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For wrongdoing that is predicated on wealth and rationalized by a sense of privilege, incarceration is the only leveler: in prison everyone is treated the same, dressed the same, and intermingle regardless of affluence, position or fame.
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Tough's reporting makes clear how painfully common this experience is, because despite the most elite schools' pledges and boasts about diversifying their campuses, they're still theaters of extraordinary affluence, with screening practices that keep them that way.
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Besides growing affluence, one reason for the growing interest in festivals in China has been the proliferation of reality television programs featuring live music, said Christina Ding, a senior project manager at market research company Daxue Consulting.
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But even its biggest adversaries might agree that you don't have to fully embrace the affluence porn or the upper-crust narrative of Crazy Rich Asians to understand that its success has the power to break down barriers.
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An estimated 70 to 80 percent of the risk of these tumors depends on the level of poverty or affluence where people live, as well as other environmental factors like social and cultural traditions and lifestyle, researchers note.
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What he finds is not an altogether unfamiliar idea: that in the journey to modernity, in the achievement of levels of peace, affluence and health that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors, some valuable things were lost.
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Q. One of the most provocative themes in the play is the idea that colleges have not come up with adequate tools to assess students who have grown up in households with none of the advantages of affluence.
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At the same time, I was studying moral philosophy, and was particularly taken aback by Peter Singer's essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," and Peter Unger's book Living High and Letting Die (recommended by my now-colleague Matt Yglesias).
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And there are concept clothes in the final section that specifically exemplify the idea of affluence, excess and waste — whether it's Mr. Scott's money dress or the plastic bag ball gown by Moschino, or the logo-strewn Guccis.
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Getting Around the Changing City, which will combine conventional discussions with urban journeys; like exploring Brooklyn by way of its bike lanes, or pondering the extremes of affluence and poverty along the route of the M101 bus line.
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They then incorporated data like populations, affluence and distance from existing sales centers, and made all the information easy to analyze to pinpoint the best locations for new centers and track the rollout of the connections in homes.
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That angry paean to empty affluence is from "Company," the pioneering concept musical of 1970 about commitment-phobia in Manhattan and the first of a landscape-altering series of collaborations between Mr. Prince and the composer Mr. Sondheim.
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There are some charming small towns within easy driving range, and many of them have seen an influx of wealth in recent years as affluence spills out from the Gold Coast and also Byron Bay to the south.
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And with the rates of affluence lower among African-Americans, triathlons can seem too expensive to pursue, from the entry fees (more than $2000, for example, for the New York City Triathlon) to the equipment, including bike gear.
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While private affluence is everywhere in Baltimore, public disarray and disdain for communities, particularly minority communities, are evident in housing policy, enforcement of housing laws, and even in the quality of those charged with directing public housing mandates.
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As you can see, Shell's projections (the blue line) are quite high, way up at the upper end of the range of scenarios IPCC considers: The company expects rapidly rising affluence and living standards in the developing world.
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"It's clear nobody had faith in a fluffy rom-com about the lives and loves of Asian people going down smoothly without a heaping spoonful of affluence porn," Emily Yoshida wrote in her review of the film for Vulture.
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In remarkably contrasting ways, critics' presentation of him as an emblem of the backward shtetl establishes their superior position, in terms of sophistication and affluence, as well as the tolerance of the democratic Western countries in which they lived.
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The rich array of 18th- and 19th-century architecture, including many grand examples of Federal and Greek Revival styles, reflects the area's affluence during its heyday as a seaport, and preserves the aristocratic air that still sets Southport apart.
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"We have more and more people interested in whisky as a category and we also have more and more affluence," said Anne Joy Michira-Muhoro, EABL's head of spirits, at the Nairobi plant where Tusker beer is also produced.
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While high-profile races like the World Drone Prix, held last March in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, pay as much as $103,000 to the winning pilot, such affluence felt distant in the shell of the Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center.
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This might paradoxically be part of the legacy of white privilege: Because white Americans have traditionally enjoyed greater affluence and cultural prestige than people of color, they might take unemployment, poverty, and their attendant indignities as harder to stomach.
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The discord over the budget had fallen not just along Democratic and Republican lines; it was also fueled by the diverging priorities of the wealthier suburbs that drive the state's affluence and its larger cities, which are struggling financially.
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Because the amount of bail is not determined in proportion to someone's ability to pay, people with affluence or wealthy connections manage to get out of jail, while low-income defendants remain incarcerated, even when bail is relatively low.
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Handsome and at ease in Ralph Lauren ads, he looks like a natural inheritor of a world of affluence and boundless opportunity, a sphere sharply unlike the reality he returns to when the fashion shows come to an end.
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Glancing references to ecological disaster on earth — the Pacific has gone toxic, children died in a famine in France — contrast with the apparent affluence and obliviousness of the passengers, a ship-of-fools bunch concerned mainly with clogged toilets.
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Uniontown, which lies about 220 miles east of two large mines that once employed well over 22018,22017 miners but are down to roughly 260 after one ceased production in 262, hints at both middle-class affluence and postindustrial angst.
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A luxury fitness sector has largely flipped the image of the wealthy fat cat; today more familiar examples of affluence are the slender green-juice swilling SoulCycle devotée or the toned triathlete outfitted with the latest high-tech tracking gear.
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The contrasts between the abject poverty in Gaza and the affluence of Israel, the mayhem of daily life in Gaza and the Israeli bureaucracy, lead to a constant culture clash that can drive even the most committed person into despair.
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Predominantly filled with low-income black and Latino students from surrounding neighborhoods, P.S. 8, with its low test scores and low enrollment, languished amid a community of affluence because white parents in the neighborhood refused to send their children there.
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But in fact, the ability to make choices about what we eat — whether out of concern for our health, our moral values, or our tastes — is, in some ways, itself a celebration of abundance and a mark of privilege and affluence.
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A constant reminder of Russia's revolutionary past during the time of the Soviet Union, Palace Square has in fact, since the 2000s, been turned into a symbol of Putin's post-Soviet Russia: a nation fascinated with their pre-revolutionary, monarchic affluence.
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Many people—including some of the Florida students themselves—point to white privilege and affluence as the driving forces behind these teens' ability to heighten awareness on an issue that others have been toiling at, with little recognition, for years.
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Now the world's largest consumer and importer of soybeans — used in everything from animal feed to cooking oil — China has seen its growing affluence drive imports of non-traditional food products like olive oil and avocado, presenting new business opportunities.
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Then remember that many "people of color" at Ivy League schools are themselves children of affluence and privilege, and that with a very few exceptions everyone who goes to an Ivy League school is a nerd — Brett Kavanaugh very much included.
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Quite the opposite; a world where capital is cheaper, connectivity greater, and goods inherently digital could be one of widespread affluence, defined not by levels of GDP growth or income but by more access to goods and services by more people.
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You have to be an able-bodied person with remarkable affluence and free time to not buy any of your food from drive-through windows, to forgo Walgreens for an independent pharmacy, to avoid all-encompassing superstores that slash prices.
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Even worse, we're convinced that a new car is the ultimate sign of affluence — that upgrading is our "right" as we earn promotions at work, secure bigger and better paychecks, and take our position as the head of our households.
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What has remained largely constant, in fact, what still follows a direct throughline from the universe of Georgetown Prep in 1983, despite parental delusions to the contrary, are the drinking practices of teenagers growing up surrounded by affluence and outsize expectations.
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The first and most obvious possibility is the one that the New York Times's big scoop on Saturday implied: that Trump has paid no taxes, or very little, for many years, while continuing to enjoy a lifestyle of affluence and luxury.
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The Arc de Triomphe, a testament to military might that has become a monumental symbol of the extreme affluence and global consumerism in its shadow, was recently vandalized by so-called yellow vest protesters objecting to high taxes and income disparity.
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But perhaps that's the point: So many people in this world are out of touch regarding the perks and benefits of their affluence and privilege, and that often means they're not aware of how their actions can have devastating consequences.
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Quebec's independence movement, triggered by the 1960s push by French-speakers for economic equality, led to a decline in the province's English-speaking population and its economic affluence, with banks and companies moving their head offices from Montreal, then a thriving financial hub.
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The BDSM components of 50 Shades of Grey were smuggled into a film with mass appeal via Christian Grey's affluence — in the cinematic adaptations, the fantasy of being Grey's submissive was overshadowed, for many, by the high-end perks that came with it.
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Big established brands still retain consumer trust that they have lost in other areas of packaged food, particularly in China, a major focus for future growth due to growing affluence and a policy to allow two children per family instead of one.
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And a rising Muslim middle class, having greater affluence and sophisticated tastes as well as pride in its religion, is likely to triple from an estimated 300 million in 2015 to 900 million by 2030, according to Ogilvy Noor, the Islamic branding consultancy.
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It refers to the appropriation of Champagne into the hip-hop lexicon as a symbol of prestige and affluence, when in fact the life of working artists is a difficult and lonely slog, far removed from the perceived glamour of the world.
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For racers, 2017 was a legendary year in which several major racing franchises all put their best foot forward and showed just how expressive this genre can be, after years of flirting with a single, shared fantasy of affluence, acquisition, and aggrandizement.
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An exhibition at Musée Maillol demonstrates that Pop Art did not then, and does not now, matter — because it has never been a site of cultural resistance, but rather a scene of authoritarianism rooted in an affirmation of top-down corporate affluence.
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In "Affluence Without Abundance," he writes of what he's learned about these hunter-gatherers and their way of life, how they have clashed with (and avoided) modernity, and what their society has taught him about how the rest of the world lives.
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" In 1964, after traveling to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, King said: "In both Norway and Sweden, whose economies are literally dwarfed by the size of our affluence and the extent of our technology, they have no unemployment and no slums.
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In the Trump era, we seem to be inundated with media about the wealthy — from Billions and Crazy Rich Asians to the USA reality series Chrisley Knows Best and Lauren Greenfield's documentary Generation Wealth — even while that same affluence feels less chic than ever.
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Despite the relative affluence and educational standards of the countries in which the surveys took place, the answers reveal deep-seated concerns and prejudices over "newcomers" to the continent, somewhat damaging the notion that Europe is a beacon of tolerance for different cultures and peoples.
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Attempting to shake up the idea that all Black people were constantly battling poverty as represented in classics like Good Times (1974-1979) and Sanford & Son (1972-19993) before it, The Cosby Show (1984-1992) introduced the world to Black affluence via the Huxtable family.
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Affluence (even of the American middle-class variety, not the Jeff Bezos variety) leaves more room in family budgets for non-necessities: 46 percent of consumption spending was on the basic necessities of food and clothing in 1947 compared with less than 18 percent today.
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And that is fitting for a school where the founder, Paul Squibb, declared back in 1932 that he wanted to create an institution free of the clutter that comes from affluence and the need to keep up with whatever everyone else has or does.
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Moreover, you wind up with the depressing results reported in The Times last week, that even when African-American families do manage to rise to affluence, their boys can't stay there because of systemic racism and the lack of fathers/role models in their neighborhoods.
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Tribe's view is shared by Martin Gilens, a political scientist at Princeton, who wrote in "Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America": As resources flow toward the already most advantaged Americans, their ability to use those resources to shape policy increases.
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One has to do with preserving a certain version of a golden age most closely associated with times of American expansion and postwar affluence; the other has to do with trampling one's enemies, abroad but especially at home, with a show of might and power.
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And affluence is no guarantee of better results, particularly in science and math: The latest PISA data (which includes private-school students) shows that America's most advantaged teenagers scored below their well-off peers in science in 20 other countries, including Canada and Britain.
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He accused Ms. Warren of seeking to impose "purity tests" for a fund-raising model — eschewing elite donors — that she herself did not follow as a Senate candidate, and he raised the subject of their comparative affluence, pointing out that Ms. Warren was far wealthier.
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"Beverly Hills, 90210," which aired from 1990 to 2000, told the story of a group of high school students living the sweet life amid Southern California affluence while dealing with teen angst, as well as more serious issues such as date rape, AIDS and teen pregnancy.
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"We are heading toward higher and higher levels of affluence and that basically means a higher and higher portion of disposable income is spent on traveling," said Jukka Heinonen, who studies sustainably built environments at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, and did not participate in the study.
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Top administrators from many elite schools signed their names to a report this year, "Turning the Tide," that urged admissions officials to take into account the hardships that prevent many underprivileged kids from putting together the kinds of conventionally glittering transcripts that children of affluence do.
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While these professions suggest a degree of financial stability, if not affluence, Fowler emphasizes that the denizens of Oak Knoll aren't ostentatious, like the "yuppies" in the "big graceless houses in new outlying subdivisions" or the "blue bloods" and industrial titans in nearby "fairy-tale" mansions.
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Big City Earlier this month Princeton University Press published a book called "Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence," by a sociologist, Rachel Sherman, who researched the spending habits of 50 well-to-do parents in New York City, and diagnosed a pervasive problem of reticence around wealth.
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Invariably, they were thrown at the large apartments of marginally older writers, editors, agents, humanities professors — people who managed to parlay an early interest in Willa Cather or the Franco-Prussian War into a bohemian affluence that seemed to operate at a level of cruise control.
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Editorial Observer There is so much new life and affluence crowding the Brooklyn waterfront that traditionalists like Mark Peskanov, the master violinist who runs the Bargemusic concerts of chamber music aboard a handsomely converted coal barge, hard by the Brooklyn Bridge, might be tempted to move.
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The closing of Met Foods, where, workers say, longtime shoppers sometimes would buy mushrooms and return with trays of Italian stuffed mushrooms for the employees to sample, seems to them another turn of the screw, where ratcheting affluence continues to make New York City less habitable.
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The family's affluence and status are, at least in part, what allow Jacob to remain innocent up to and including the summer he spends at a Hitler Youth camp in Germany, where he receives the praise of older boys during war games and is honored with a shiny dagger.
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Since Germany's as well as Europe's security and affluence rest upon the current international order even as President Trump charts a different course for the United States, an increased responsibility falls to the European Union and its member state Germany to safeguard and strengthen the international order. 2.
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Despite its Rocky Mountain setting, or perhaps because of it, the city and surrounding suburbs grew to prominence and affluence thanks to homegrown businesses like the semiconductor giant Micron Technology, a former start-up itself, as well as the J. R. Simplot Company and the Albertsons grocery chain.
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You can decide that you trust Elizabeth Warren to walk into those fund-raisers and out again with the same politics, if you like, and she's certainly got a better chance of doing that than most of those who ooze in and out of these havens of affluence and influence.
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Raad's work probes the tendency of the wealthy to treat art production as a speculative market, but also their power to determine the outcomes of events — artistic ones, like the careers of artists, as well as socio-political ones, like elections and wars — in order to boost their influence and affluence.
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"The bedroom contained the addiction; the rest of the house felt like a front for the recovery they, or we, had hoped for, the family life they, or we, had wanted — a Potemkin facade of affluence and stability," Ms. Rausing writes in "Mayhem," which comes out next month from Knopf.
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" By setting her show in South Los Angeles, she is able to reveal the spectrum of African-American class diversity, as she noted in an interview with The Daily Beast: "Yes, there's poverty there, there are gang members there, but there's also affluence, there's middle class, and everybody meshes together.
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Around the turn of the 20th century, it was the center of affluence and nightlife in the city, which you see remnants of in really ornate, majestic venues like the Aragon Ballroom and The Riviera and the Uptown Theater, which has been under renovation for as long as I can remember.
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Caught between the oil-fuelled riches of Aberdeen to the north, Edinburgh's architectural splendour and establishment affluence to the south, and with its post-industrial problems dwarfed in sheer scale by the much larger Glasgow in the west, there was—and still remains—a sense that Dundee inhabits the periphery of things.
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The exchange, notes James Suzman in his new book "Affluence Without Abundance", was a meeting of two distant branches of the human family tree: Europeans descended from ancient tribes that migrated out of Africa, and people commonly known as the San, who had called southern Africa home for at least 150,000 years.
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And the mise-en-scène — its flamboyant and farcical qualities, its digitally simulated grace — places us unmistakably in the realm of Pen & Pixel, the Houston-based graphic-design firm that prospered from 1992 to 2003 by bringing just this combination of menacing nonchalance and near-utopian affluence to the nation's album covers.
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But that's never meant that a generation doesn't crave voices — plural — and Grown-ish aims to spin the Black-ish formula into a series that acts as one for Generation Z. Black-ish takes on the spirit of black affluence in Generation X through the point of view of a goofy, high-strung dad.
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Rather than really delving into, say, the Kingdom's reluctance to take on Negan, or its relative affluence compared with the other communities, The Walking Dead is mostly interested in the Kingdom as a series of weirdo medieval affectations and a place for assorted supporting characters to hang out until the story needs them again.
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They are proud of their relative economic affluence (unemployment in the state, at around 3.9 percent, is among the lowest in Germany); devoted to their cultural heritage (it is the land of Oktoberfest and a centuries-old beer-purity law); and speak a dialect that, unless diluted, can be virtually incomprehensible to other Germans.
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The implicit argument behind the Gilens/Page paper, and of Gilens's book Affluence and Influence, is that in a democracy, there should be strong congruence between policy outcomes and the opinions of the American middle class — or, at the very least, between policy outcomes and the views of the American public as a whole.
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"Given the present outlook, only the faithful who believe in miracles from heaven, the optimistic who anticipate superwonders from science, the parochial fortunate who think they can continue to exist on islands of affluence in a sea of world poverty, and the naïve who anticipate nothing can look to the future with equanimity," Hauser concluded.
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The arc of his life took Father Keating from riches to rags and back to riches again, Mr. Jones said in a telephone interview: He was born into affluence and privilege in Manhattan, walked away from it all when he entered an austere monastic community in Rhode Island, and was rewarded with spiritual riches.
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Playlist: Happy End - "Kaze Wo Atsumete" / Taeko Ohnuki - "都会" / Tatsuro Yamashita - "Music Book" / Shigeru Suzuki - "Coral Reef" / Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe - "Dear Breeze" / Eiichi Ohtaki - "カナリア諸島にて" / Narumin & Etsu - "Summer Touches You" / Seaside Lovers - "Evening Shadows" As some of the citizens of Japan enjoyed their newfound affluence, their social attitudes started to evolve as well.
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If I had a tower named after me that was built of my (purported) enormous affluence, and a bar within that tower, right near its entryway, and a drink within that bar that was meant to specifically signify my wealth and success, I would probably try to ensure that if nothing else, that one cocktail was pretty decent.
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Sure, settling down in agrarian societies provided the basis for the modern state by allowing large numbers of people to live in one place for extended periods of time, but it also led to the spread of diseases and forced people to give up the freedom of an itinerant lifestyle for the affluence of a modern one.
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And, just as one of the biggest challenges for parents in the inner city is making sure their kids are not out after dark, in unsafe places and hanging out with people who are already in trouble, parents in affluence -- upper middle class households and above -- have to insulate their kids from the risks that are especially potent in their subculture, she said.
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Set amid the affluence and sunshine of mid-1960s suburban Los Angeles, where drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll and the specter of the Vietnam War had yet to rend the fabric of an older generation's social expectations, the film caught the alienation of the American young who sensed, long before their parents did, that the world they were entering was a whole new place.
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He cites three reasons for the weakening of liberal democracy: the rise of social media, which is "empowering once-marginal movements and politicians" in ways good but often bad; an increase in economic inequality, which he calls "affluence without growth"; and a nativist backlash against an upsurge of immigration and ethnic diversity, which politicians like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen in France and Viktor Orban in Hungary have exploited.
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Her mission involves a deft finesse between showing children the larger world of affluence — she takes students to stores and restaurants in Park Slope and Williamsburg so that they might know how the salumi half lives — and inculcating in them a sense of investment in their own neighborhood, so they might aspire to do well but ultimately return to the place they were brought up and improve it.
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The current and disproportionate affluence that white communities possess, he explained, has been built on centuries of state intervention and assistance: Military forces stole indigenous land, the government parceled it out and gave it away to white farmers, and then a whole apparatus of development and finance was mobilized, first to exclude black people, and then bringing them back within limited reach of credit and capital—but only on the lending industry's predatory terms.
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If you are reading this review on an iPad or iPhone or another Silicon Valley-designed computer screen, then Freeman's history will not only explain how and where your device came to be produced but also how the story of modern production parallels the story of your relative level of affluence, from the balance in your retirement funds to the circumstances prompting your ancestors' migration from an unproductive Irish potato field to a western Pennsylvania steel mill.
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