prosperous

• “I've never seen so much hurt on the street in prosperous Maryland," Ehrlich said.”

  The Washington Post: Marvin Mandel, other Dems urge turnout for Republican Ehrlich

• “Even in prosperous times (e.g., the 90s, which were very good to Michigan as a whole) Detroit continued to collape.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Turning Detroit Around

• “Though he does not say so, a haunted country grown prosperous from the export of precision machine tools may have a brighter future than Britain, for all its clear conscience and financial wizardry.”

  The Guardian: The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson – review

• “Â Springfield grew up in prosperous Hampstead in North London.”

  Five People Born on April 16 | myFiveBest

• “As far as I can tell, the most likely consequence of the incessant droning that taxes are bad, now that the primary goal of destroying public services while reducing the tax burden on the already prosperous is close to attainment, is that all Americans will adopt the Greek attitude towards taxes.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13

• “The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence.”

  From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558

• “Housewives in prosperous areas can select from blushing Georgia peaches, fresh broccoli and plump kiwi, while señoras in less prosperous areas are limited to seasonal domestic fruit, tangerines and melons, and traditional produce like nopales (cactus), green tomatillos and chili peppers.”

  Shopping in Mexico: the tianguis

• “Even the smaller estimate is sufficiently impressive, but probably, in prosperous times at least, the higher is more nearly correct.”

  Class-Consciousness and the 'Movies'

• “Since a single dentist, however, cannot render adequate service to more than 30 per cent of this number, about 70 per cent of the needed dental services, even in prosperous times, are not rendered at all.”

  Dollars, Doctors, and Disease

• “One member of the committee, Dr. Michael M. Davis, finds that, even in prosperous times, 61 per cent of working-class families in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia spend nothing for dental care.”

  Dollars, Doctors, and Disease

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