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Mr. Sacks, who runs Agency Sacks, a consultant that works with the affluent, said Skye's brother Moose recently had a sock removed from his stomach at a cost of about $6,000.

"There's a huge supply of senior citizens in the county, and a lot of them happen to be affluent," said Michael D. Daly, president of Forest City Daly Housing in Manhattan.

"It really was the opportunity to do two things: present art forms that have not been represented and bring in new audiences, more diverse, less affluent," said Nathan Leventhal, president of Lincoln Center, who will step down in December after nearly 17 years.

Income tax rates also need to be adjusted at the top of the scale, so that the affluent, say, couples with taxable income of $400,000 a year, are not paying the same top rate as multimillionaires.

Advertisers airing a spot on a niche channel on cable television, for example, might be able to make more educated guesses about the audience (in their 30s, gay and affluent, say), but they are still paying a CPM rate in order blindly to cast a message in a general direction.

But we're also a good market and relatively affluent," says Winstock.

"Many banks are realizing there are several good reasons to focus on the emerging affluent segment," said Daniel Baranowski, head of the emerging affluent segment for Citibank in the Asia-Pacific region.

After 20 years, the lowest socioeconomic group lagged further behind the most affluent, Dr. Singh said, noting that "life expectancy was higher for the most affluent in 1980 than for the most deprived group in 2000".

"They're affluent," she said.

"It's the right audience: adventurous and affluent," he said.

"Westchester is a very affluent county," said Mr. Kline, who lives in Yorktown Heights.