3) Golf was essentially for the affluent and consisted of only a handful of top players.
What this means, essentially, is that more affluent Americans would have their benefits — at least when they first retire — pegged to the consumer price index, rather than to wages, which would have the effect of reducing payouts.
In theory, Pinterest is a marketer's dream come true: 70 million users, mostly young and affluent women, essentially voting for their favorite brands, products and online content.
Ms. Stevenson says the tax code essentially creates "a subsidy for affluent husbands" by treating a working couple's dual income just as it treats the same amount of income earned by a working married person whose spouse stays home.
Members of the Bush team drew up the tax cuts essentially as a rebate to the affluent for the excess money they said Washington had been taking.
When Diana Spencer first appeared in public, she looked like a pretty but essentially generic Sloane Ranger, a member of the affluent upper-middle classes whose mores were a favorite journalistic staple in Britain during the early nineteen-eighties.
If Sanders has failed to motivate the less affluent broadly speaking, he's essentially failed to fix an entrenched problem in American democracy with what amounts to a phenomenally successful, but probably ultimately not successful enough, insurgent campaign.
Later, Hampton's film version would itself be reinterpreted, the story updated to contemporary Manhattan by Roger Kumble, the writer-director of the stylish yet essentially vacuous Cruel Intentions (1999), starring Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar as affluent high-school wasters.
White, affluent, empty pop, basically.
Whatever D'Souza's intentions in "The Virtue of Prosperity," the book is mostly going to serve to define greed up: it's essentially an elegant rationale for members of his mass affluent class to continue not worrying very much about anyone else.
