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affluent society
affluent society term coined by John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society (1958) to describe the United States after World War II. An affluent society, as the term was used ironically by Galbraith, is rich in private resources but poor in public ones because of a misplaced priority on... Read more |
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stockbroker
stockbroker a broker who buys and sells securities on a stock exchange on behalf of clients; the term is recorded from the early 18th century.stockbroker belt an affluent residential area outside a large city, supposedly typical of the lifestyle of a successful stockbroker.Stockbroker's Tudor an... Read more |
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West Hartford
West Hartford town (1990 pop. 60,110), Hartford co., central Conn., a suburb of Hartford ; settled c.1679, inc. 1854. Industrial production, which comprises a geographically small part of West Hartford, includes machinery, motor vehicle equipment, chemical products, and plastics. An affluent... Read more |
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New Magazines
NEW MAGAZINES Magazines for the Affluent After the recession of the early 1980s, most of the decade was marked by increased prosperity and a slowdown in the rate of inflation, leaving many Americans with disposable income to spend on magazines that addressed their interests in... Read more |
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport city (1990 pop. 141,686), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound; inc. 1836. Long a chief industrial city in Connecticut, it makes electrical appliances, transportation equipment, clothing, ammunition, metal products, wiring devices, machinery, helicopters, motor vehicles, and... Read more |
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Racial Profiling
RACIAL PROFILING The consideration of race, ethnicity, or national origin by an officer of the law in deciding when and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity. Police officers often profile certain types of individuals who are more likely to perpetrate crimes. Many of these suspects are... Read more |
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Tyburn
Tyburn, the name borrowed for the Middlesex gallows from a nearby tributary of the river Thames, was the principal place of execution in London from 1388 until 1783 (near the modern Marble Arch). In the hope that witnessing an execution might prove deterrent, hanging days were public holidays, hence... Read more |
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Aspen
Aspen , city (1990 pop. 5,049), alt. 7,850 ft (2,390 m), seat of Pitkin co., S central Colo., on the Roaring Fork River; founded c.1879 by silver prospectors, inc. 1881. Declining after an 1880s-90s boom, it was transformed in the 1930s into a ski resort. Affluent, cosmopolitan Aspen is now noted... Read more |
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, social reformer, and dramatist who came into international prominence when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore or simply Rabindranath as he is known in India, was born... Read more |
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