As the film begins, in 1981, Sante and Ken Kimes Chelcie Rosss), her affluent common-law husband (he refused to marry her), are living in luxury in Honolulu, where she indulges her crime habit.
The smell of opium in residential neighborhoods, even in affluent areas, is common.
This is true despite many warnings by federal tax officials that cheating is becoming far more common among affluent Americans.
"Sexual competition among females seems to increase due to circumstances that tend to be particularly common in affluent societies," Dr. Ferguson said.
These numbers fail to account for the income that is hidden from tax collectors — a practice, research shows, that is more common among affluent families.
Exercising the reverse snobbery common among affluent Administration officials, he does not bother with a barber; he cuts his own hair, badly.
Q: There's a perception that vaccine refusal is especially common among affluent, well-educated, politically liberal parents is there any truth to that?
Poor people scavenging, sorting and selling rubbish to more powerful and affluent middlemen is a common pattern in Bogota, Belo Horizonte, Manila and Jakarta, and all these areas were affected by waste slide disasters in the recent decades.
The issue of opioid addiction gained increased attention, not just as rates skyrocketed, but also as heroin became more common in affluent communities, specifically predominantly white, higher-income suburbs.
Clearly, or so the thinking goes, a well-off applicant with near-perfect SAT scores and a 4.3 GPA (adjusted with extra points from AP courses that are common in affluent schools and rare in low-income schools) is more qualified than an inner-city student with lower numbers.
In 1964, just at the moment legislation was being written to establish the NEA, Rand published "The Virtue of Selfishness". The idea that the federal government should play an active role in arts support, common across affluent Western European democracies, had been percolating during the Eisenhower years.
