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The newly-rich TV news people began to hang out with the becoming-fabulously-rich business people, never again criticizing them because they now worked and played together and were members of the same clubs and their kids went to the same best schools.
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She attended the only local school thought suitable for daughters of the newly-rich middle-class: Manchester High School for Girls.
Rebecca Sieff. 2009
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"So it's funny that he's gone and done what so many newly-rich, videogame-anime-lady-obsessed nerds have done before him: he's found himself an Asian girlfriend."
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Of course if any of those newly-rich vagabonds tried to use their money to buy a house, we would kick them off the program.
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Mr. Niu also worried about his safety: He'd read news reports about newly-rich local businessmen getting kidnapped and killed, and knew that one of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's sons had been kidnapped and only released after the family paid a huge ransom.
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China faces a looming baby boom as newly-rich couples find they can afford to pay fines incurred from having more than one child ....
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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Members of his ANC, which came to power in the country's first all-race elections in April, have complained of unfair reporting on the lifestyles of the newly-rich and famous and their perks, including luxury cars and free air travel.
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But Rosedale has social ambitions that move in with the Bellomont set rather than the set to which Lily is now forced to adapt herself, the set of the anxious newly-rich to whom the custom of the country does not come easily.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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But Rosedale has social ambitions that move in with the Bellomont set rather than the set to which Lily is now forced to adapt herself, the set of the anxious newly-rich to whom the custom of the country does not come easily.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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But Rosedale has social ambitions that move in with the Bellomont set rather than the set to which Lily is now forced to adapt herself, the set of the anxious newly-rich to whom the custom of the country does not come easily.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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