The obvious point is too often forgotten: the most affluent, successful economy in the history of the planet got that way by paying success more than failure, effort more than slackitude, and rewarding individuals that plan over their entire life-cycle.
As India's population becomes more affluent, successful luxury goods manufacturers will "create aspirations," Ms. D'Arpizio said, and people will buy their products to show their pride in their prosperity.
Mr X is affluent and successful, but there are literally thousands of North Koreans like him nowadays.
It was great to see so many affluent and successful African Americans celebrating the culture of the weekend.
He came from an affluent, academically successful family, graduated in the top one percent of his college class, and gained admittance to a competitive, demanding graduate school -- the University of Colorado's program in neuroscience.
The women-too old now to pout, whine and babble about their wet dreams, affluent and successful for reasons that are never clear-are all vain, narcissistic, selfish, superficial and really rather stupid.
They're of different ages and backgrounds but all are in the professions, many of them affluent and enviably successful.
With an infusion of new money from their owner, Ted Rogers, the Blue Jays spent like never before in their attempt to catch the more affluent and perennially successful teams ahead of them -- the Yankees and the Red Sox.
In a 39-count indictment handed up by a Dutchess County grand jury and made public in Poughkeepsie yesterday, Mr. Zarro, a longtime Hudson Valley resident who now lives in Dorset, Vt., was accused of preying on affluent people and successful businesses with a bewildering array of schemes in which he exchanged silken promises for money, up front, which he kept as the promises evaporated.
In the author's view, the "ancient bond" that united Jews of every stripe through six thousand years of precarious existence in a hostile world has ceased to do so in a more tolerant one; as the American Jewish community has become increasingly affluent, educated, and successful, its internal divisions have become increasingly rancorous.
It's remained comparatively affluent and rather successful, but nobody was quite sure what it was there for any more.
