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Kim grew up in the southeastern city of Daegu in a family that was welloff--until his father went bankrupt.
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Amazingly, by 2015 Estonia is projected to still be less welloff than it was in 2007.
Mark Weisbrot: Baltic Countries Show What Greece May Look Forward to if it Follows EC/IMF Advice 2010
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Amazingly, by 2015 Estonia is projected to still be less welloff than it was in 2007.
Mark Weisbrot: Baltic Countries Show What Greece May Look Forward to if it Follows EC/IMF Advice 2010
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Less than 10 percent of the better off were obese, as opposed to more than 30 percent of the less welloff.
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We asked 12 percent of our Social Security recipients, the most welloff, to pay more, but not until 1994.
Secretary Bentsen Briefing On Taxes ITY National Archives 1994
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He informs the Duke of the Council order for merchant ships to leave the colony in fleets that are convoyed welloff shore by the warship stationed in Virginia, because of the war with Spain.
Letter from Robert Carter to the Duke of Newcastle, June 29, 1727 1727
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As a nation we will be much less welloff because of a desire the promote "fairness" at the expense of expanding and growing our economy.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2010
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'Our study revealed that over 65% of people see "making it" in life as a matter of becoming welloff and comfortable, not superwealthy.
This is Money | Home 2009
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So it is upper-middle class kids, who already have the advantages of good homes and schooling, who get the benefit of this “medical diagnosis,” because they, despite their advantages, seem to exhibit behavior that would indicate, in your words, “that they were low IQ” if they weren’t welloff.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing to Get More Time on Exams 2009
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So it is upper-middle class kids, who already have the advantages of good homes and schooling, who get the benefit of this “medical diagnosis,” because they, despite their advantages, seem to exhibit behavior that would indicate, in your words, “that they were low IQ” if they weren’t welloff.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing to Get More Time on Exams 2009
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