The well-to-do audience is assembled, expecting an evening's light entertainment.
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His settings were often the stately homes of the well-to-do.
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OF LIFE's two certainties, death cannot be dodged even by the well-to-do.
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The well-to-do in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) still grumble about Marwari money-men.
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But air travel was expensive then, mostly for business executives and the well-to-do.
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This message, like a future of choices, is a luxury of the well-to-do.
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Fewer dollars from the well-to-do mean even less money for our education and infrastructure.
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Nevertheless, it was a reprieve, something meant to benefit not the well-to-do but the needy.
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But before it gets to them, it will first line the pockets of the well-to-do.
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Congressional Republicans are working on a tax-reform plan that in practice would benefit the well-to-do.
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"The democratic community cannot tolerate a society upon education for the well-to-do alone," the report declared.
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I see... Well, for the well-to-do lady or gentleman, nothing expresses love like a thoughtful gift.
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The well-to-do might seem to have vastly different concerns than people working in a large bureaucracy.
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The LTDA represents London's pricey black cabs that serve mainly the well-to-do in the capital's centre.
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The house got fancier with his success, but he had no wish to move with the well-to-do.
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Capital One is putting a café at a prime corner JPMorgan wanted in the well-to-do Georgetown area.
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In the well-to-do suburban setting of Sugar Land, Texas, the Whitakers presented the picture of a perfect family.
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Some hope that it will finally persuade the well-to-do here to start taking public transportation in substantial numbers.
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Things look much better for the well-to-do black man, sitting at the 90th percentile of the black earnings distribution.
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A generation or two ago, the well-to-do tended to flee to the suburbs when they married or had kids.
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Contrary to GOP priorities, the well-to-do and the accumulation of wealth are not portrayed positively anywhere in the scriptures.
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The bottom line: The Aviator, which ranges from $51,100 to $87,800, is a great ride for the well-to-do family.
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These places have precisely been carved up, to secure protected environments, protected communities for the well-to-do, in most cases.
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White-collar workers and the well-to-do classes have a long history in the city and its suburbs, too, of course.
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He closed half the mental health clinics in his city while spending lavishly to build things geared for the well-to-do.
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There's the enigma around the ambitious persistence of the well-to-do Gina (Michelle Williams), who's trying to build her dream home.
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Mr. Paul, 54, has long stood out in the well-to-do gated neighborhood south of Bowling Green, Ky., that he calls home.
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And by using tax increases on the well-to-do to pay for expanded coverage, the expansion did not add to budget deficits.
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Mr. Ryan's "Better Way" was only a better way for the well-to-do, as they would be spared the current tax surcharge.
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It is an aggravating tax for the well-to-do, what Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin called a "complicated" additional system of taxation.
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But Breitfeld believes it will be an attractive car for the well-to-do in China, which he expects to be the primary market.
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The well-to-do can try to shield their wealth and their descendants from any future changes by transferring their assets to dynasty trusts.
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If rents keep going up, at some point only the well-to-do will be able to live in Manhattan and much of Brooklyn.
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The social calendars of the well-to-do have been thrown into disarray, as art festivals, luxury fairs and invitation-only retreats are postponed or canceled.
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As Fritzsche points out, though, such suffering was unequally distributed; the unemployed tended not to vote for the Nazis, but the "well-to-do burghers" did.
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And the strength in the stock market to all-time highs, while mostly benefiting the well-to-do, should support continued improvements in consumer confidence and spending.
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However, since stock and other appreciated asset ownership is largely concentrated among the nation's wealthy, the benefit of this rule inures predominantly to the well-to-do.
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Yet during the heyday of saloon politics, in the 1870s and 1880s, the well to do began to question the entire logic of voting rights for all.
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In the well-to-do Bellas Artes neighborhood, Marilyn has the same owners as the hip restobar Opera Catedral next door and the lively vibe carries over.
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Their families say the pair collected around $13,000, a fortune for even the well-to-do, to pay a local smuggler who guaranteed safe passage to Europe.
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Nathan Clements-Gillespie, director of Art16, said the event had built a local following of young professionals in the well-to-do Kensington area, on the venue's doorstep.
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Over the past three years or so, the escalation of identity politics has got everyone thinking twice before laughing along with the well-to-do white dude telling jokes.
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We never find out how you order a Prime, or whether it's just the well-to-do who can afford one; will the poor continue to mourn as before?
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While the sobbing Karen recoils, the audience learns that the couple are the well-to-do owners of an art gallery in Manhattan and have raised three grown daughters.
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Americans are proving increasingly receptive to raising taxes on the well-to-do, but new polling suggests that increasing inheritance taxes is not as popular as some other proposals.
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The idea of luxury has come to include the stylish and unstylish, the well-to-do and the aspiring, the sincere and the ironic, the real and the fake.
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"There's been an overreliance on property taxes," said Michele Smith, an alderman representing a ward that includes the well-to-do Lincoln Park neighborhood, on the city's North Side.
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It will be the well-to-do, to the amazement of all their friends, who still know how to drive and who will teach their kids how to drive.
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But it's easy to poke a few glaring holes in the theory, and one of them is how the well-to-do are able to tackle a thing like acne.
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CBS's The Neighborhood has Cedric the Entertainer and Tichina Arnold (arguably one of the queens of Black sitcoms) as the well-to-do couple next door in a Black neighborhood.
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Clinton is right to want to redistribute those green pieces from the sluggish wallets of the well to do to starved wallets of those who will spend them with vigor.
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A tract on the well-to-do Upper West Side of Manhattan – adjacent to Riverside Park between 24.7th and 24th Streets – had rates similar to Flint's even in recent years.
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As intraparty economic and racial divisions have increased within the Democratic coalition, the political power of the well-to-do has grown at the expense of racial and ethnic minorities.
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And the lavish galas and the largely homogeneous circle of the well-to-do who frequent them may seem incongruous in a diverse city that is wrestling with income inequality.
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Polling consistently shows that Americans believe corporations and the rich pay too little in tax and are very open to the idea of higher rates for the well-to-do.
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The locals in the well-to-do Yorkshire spa town might not appreciate the freshly-painted graffiti, but come Sunday they might know a little more about Van der Poel.
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"As it is now generally accepted, the cost of private healthcare is out of the reach of many citizens, even the well-to-do ones," health minister Aaron Motsoaledi told reporters.
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Three days before she died, WXLT-TV talk show host Christine Chubbuck hosted a party at her oceanfront house in the well-to-do neighborhood of Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida.
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At the same time, there is room to collect more tax from those at the top, by closing loopholes that favor the well-to-do and by raising some tax rates.
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After all, the Walmart brand today is aligned with cost savings and mainstream America, not necessarily the well-to-do, time-strapped urban parents to whom Jet black aimed to cater.
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Mr Heuet also provides a map of Paris, pinpointing important landmarks—Swann's residence, the Opéra Garnier and the house of the Verdurins, who host salons for the well-to-do bohemian bourgeoisie.
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They want as much money to leak out as possible—and they know that only the well-to-do can afford the accountants necessary to take maximum advantage of the tax laws.
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That is why, a century after Schweppes's innovation, to quaff a gin-and-tonic on a summer's day, in the well-to-do shires of England, was no less nostalgic than refreshing.
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As a result, he lost ground among the well-to-do, but still performed far better than earlier Democrats had done, losing among voters making $100,000 or more by nine points, 103-54.
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In trying to screen out "public charges" (those who will be dependent on the government for assistance), this rule may ironically screen out the well-to-do, since credit invisibility does not discriminate.
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It's not like we're gonna take all your money tomorrow, but if you don't tax at high marginal rates, you get endless accumulation of capital in the hands of the well-to-do.
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And when it comes to taxes on the well-to-do, two-thirds of those polled said they preferred Hillary Clinton's plan to tack on a 4 percent surcharge on incomes exceeding $22016 million.
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Over the last few years, the idea of luxury has grown enough to include the stylish and unstylish, the well-to-do and the aspiring, the sincere and the ironic, the real and the fake.
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Clinton's most successful fund-raising month so far, as she crisscrossed the country on a money hunt that took her to dozens of events in the summer locales of the wealthy and the well-to-do.
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Nantucket is an island 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, where the well-to-do notoriously spend their summers: The island is 45 square miles of beach playground for those with a high net worth.
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And not surprisingly, for those familiar with the rising level of income and wealth polarization in favor of the well-to-do in the US, the share flowing to labor has been falling for many years.
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But the proposal puts Bloomberg squarely in the mainstream of the Democratic primary this year, where calls for trillion-dollar tax increases on the well-to-do — coupled with trillion-dollar spending plans — have become the norm.
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Jean Noel Faye, 38, who hawks women's shoes at a ramshackle outdoor market in Dakar, said he had little sympathy for the well-to-do Senegalese merchants who complain about the Chinese and their rock-bottom prices.
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Putting to one side the merits of any particular proposal, the liberal media's instantaneous and vociferous rejection of any proposed reduction in various deductions is inconsistent with their complaint that the proposed legislation favors the well-to-do.
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When a woman's body was stolen from the graveyard at Trinity Church, which offered a reward of $100 for information about the perpetrators, the plague had officially struck the well-to-do, setting the stage for a confrontation.
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"I had good friends in this area who couldn't distinguish him from a Republican," said Jeanne Zaino, a professor of political science at Iona College in Westchester County, the well-to-do area where Mr. Cuomo now lives.
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The persistent litany of complaints about him — that he is arrogant, that he doesn't listen to the less fortunate, that he is authoritarian, that his policies favor the well-to-do — are self-reinforcing and feed on one another.
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"Evident from her proposals is the belief that the country needs to invest more in education, infrastructure and workers, and that the well-to-do, and to a lesser degree financial institutions and businesses, should pay for it," Moody's wrote.
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Mercedes is betting that the well-to-do will continue to prefer these mini luxury tanks for the foreseeable future, even if most of its customers will buy into the idea of its powers rather than executing its moves in reality.
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Speaking to the economic and social anxieties of blue-collar white voters over immigration, trade and demographic change, Mr. Trump has championed tax cuts for the well-to-do paired with benefit cuts for the struggling voters in his base.
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Salvini's resurgent League party and his rightist allies are looking to end almost 75 years of unbroken leftist rule in the well-to-do Emilia Romagna region in next Sunday's election, with latest polls putting the two camps neck and neck.
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A 43-year-old House Republican who represented the well-to-do Kansas City suburbs, Mr. Yoder had to read about how the National Republican Congressional Committee was pulling its advertising from his district because it did not think he could win.
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Another weekend ritual for Mr. Kozlov, as for so many other Russian businessmen, is to visit the Sanduny steam baths, an opulent, Greco-Roman themed bathhouse with a deep history in the Russian capital as a mixing place for the well-to-do.
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Since the government couldn&apost provide water, they decided to drill their own well alongside their apartment building in the tony Campo Alegre neighborhood, an increasingly popular solution among the well-to-do as Venezuela&aposs water system crumbles along with its socialist-run economy.
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If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were to grant an Oscar for architecture as a character in a movie, the Minimalist manse inhabited by the well-to-do Park family in Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" would certainly be the lead contender.
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So she volunteered for Movin' On Up. This was the charity she'd donated her ex-husband's study desk to—a nonprofit whose volunteers drove a big yellow truck around town, collecting the castoffs of the well-to-do and delivering them to people in need.
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Life for a retired pro wrestler can be tough, with even the well-to-do ones at the mercy of extended medical bills for problems the one-two punch of a life on the road and sparse to non-existent medical insurance can create.
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Elena manages to convince her family to let her stay in school, while Lila doesn't; nevertheless, Lila continues to read and educate herself, even as she blossoms into a much-in-demand beauty, resisting the advances of the well-to-do boy that's pursuing her.
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In truth, the Republican Party is still driven by the two propositions that have guided it for decades: cutting government aid will free poor Americans to shake dependency and get ahead, and cutting taxes on the well-to-do will bring prosperity to all.
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In the Republican's view, the race pits Mr. Cuomo, the well-to-do, big-city scion of a political dynasty, against Mr. Molinaro, the lower-class son of divorced parents who grew up in this small village where he was elected mayor at the age of 19.
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Workers occasionally went on strike over their working hours, but by 1875 the annual production of 2.5 million watches — once a luxury item of the well-to-do — shows that they were at least beginning to afford the means of knowing when their shifts would end.
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International Real Estate 17 Photos View Slide Show ' A SIX-BEDROOM HOUSE OUTSIDE HELSINKI $53,796,700 (1,590,000 EUROS) On a country lane surrounded by farm fields, this 1995 house is on a 0.9-acre lot in the well-to-do suburb of Kauniainen, about eight miles from downtown Helsinki.
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The bottom line, Smeeding wrote in an email, is this: The well-to-do are isolated from the day to day struggles of the middle class and below to provide these key services (health, education, job search and other opportunities) to aid the upward mobility of their children.
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With experiences increasingly capturing luxury consumers' imaginations as much as tangible objects, the phrase "To boldly go where no man has gone before" has now gone from being a popular sci-fi phrase (and strict grammatician's bugbear) to being a realistic aspiration for the well-to-do itinerant.
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As President Trump pointed out on the campaign trail, by price-fixing the federal funds rate for political purposes, the liberal donors working at the Fed have kept the economy in a "big, fat economic bubble" — enriching the well-to-do while destroying the purchasing power of American families.
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CHENNAI, India — After school, when the 303-year-old girl rode her bicycle around the well-to-do apartment complex where she lived with her family in Chennai in southeastern India, an elevator attendant would find her and lead her to a basement, a rooftop or a public bathroom.
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The tactic known as like-kind exchanges, in which corporations defer tax on the sale of real estate and other assets by buying other assets with the proceeds, started out as a break for farmers but has become a tax-avoidance juggernaut for businesses and the well-to-do.
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The folksy Mr. Rosen, who took over Ticketmaster in 1982 and helped turn it into a goliath, and Mr. Fellman, who started his studio career in 1964, worked out details for Red Carpet over rounds of golf at the well-to-do Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles.
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That book — "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — describes a well-to-do young man who leaves home and falls in with a troupe of actors, has adventures and finally realizes his destiny lies with a society of the well-to-do that is intimately connected to his origins.
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Assuming that one does not want to take it out on the poor, or the middle class, or weaken our infrastructure, raising tax rates on the well-to-do is the only way we can realistically reduce our national debt, both absolutely and as a percentage of our gross domestic product.
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The show, based on Australian writer Liane Moriarty's bestseller, is set on California's picturesque Monterey Peninsula, and the well-to-do characters, including Witherspoon's professional pot stirrer, Madeline Martha Mackenzie, Kidman's lawyer-turned-mom, Celeste Wright, and Laura Dern's high-powered exec, Renata Klein, have a truly stunning real estate portfolio between them.
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It is the reason, her campaign advisers say, that she has the time to dedicate to hourslong selfie lines, to expand the map of states she can visit, and to call up small donors at random to thank them for giving, rather than pleading for more $2,800 donations from the well-to-do.
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In the coming weeks, Mr. Trump and campaign officials will attend a string of high-dollar fund-raisers organized with the Republican National Committee, hitting the summer haunts of the well-to-do — from East Hampton to the California wine country — in a last-ditch effort to tap into the party's vast financial reserves.
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"The cities are a little out of balance: The well-to-do are doing quite well, but there are a lot of neighborhoods in which poverty, crime, bad schools and a bad life experience is still too prevalent," said Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman who advised his city's newly elected mayor, Lori Lightfoot.
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In other luxury categories, including exotic automobiles, designer frocks, private jets, flashy diamond jewelry, spacious villas and sleek yachts, the well-to-do are taking a cue from the broader shift to a sharing economy, epitomized by the ride-hailing service Uber, city bike programs and the peer-to-peer sharing of many goods and services.
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But if she wins, how well will Clinton be able to govern with a base split between the well-to-do, many of whom seek to protect their enclaves against the interests, needs and classically American ambitions of the other half of the party — low-to-moderate income African-Americans and Hispanics and the truly poor?
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CAVUTO: Do you fear, though, that some of your colleagues, Republican colleagues, are trying too hard to win potential Democratic votes by doing something like that, by limiting state and local tax deductions or maybe slowly phasing them out for the well-to-do, to get Democratic votes, and it turns out, even after all that, you don&apost get a one?
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The accompanying chart, taken from "The Continuing Increase in Income Segregation," a March 2016 paper by Sean F. Reardon, a professor of education at Stanford, and Kendra Bischoff, a professor of sociology at Cornell, demonstrates the accelerating geographic isolation of the well-to-do — the upper middle and upper classes (a pattern of isolation that also applies to the poor, with devastating effect).
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That is less surprising when one realizes that for all the stories about harried workers in the Midwest shouldering an unbearable tax burden, tax relief since Reagan's fateful State of the Union speech has mostly been aimed at benefiting the well-to-do: The average tax rate for Americans in the bottom half of the income pile was higher in 2014 than it was in 1980.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (Ore.), ranking Democrat on the Senate panel covering taxes, said the GOP tax framework "cuts taxes disproportionately for the well-to-do" while masquerading as a boon for the middle class.
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He has lampooned those universal welfare programs as unrealistic and more beneficial to the rich than the poor—"I'm skeptical of spending [tax revenue] on millionaires and billionaires"—and defended his work for the corporate-downsizing artists at McKinsey, hoping his steady gradualism on health care, taxes, and education will win over party elites, wealthy donors, and the well-to-do suburban and exurban base voters who fear that the stable status quo of the Clinton and Obama years is being disrupted by a surging left.
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