• Langley and Homer Collyer came from a well-to-do family from the Hudson Valley.

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  • Miyauchi was born to a well-to-do family in the lumber business in Kobe.

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  • Naomi Watts and Tim Roth play a well-to-do American couple staying at their lakeside retreat with their son and their dog.

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  • The ranch could also sell to a pro athlete or a well-to-do family looking for a private residence where the kids can hone their athletic skills.

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  • The slick-haired, soft-spoken Hatoyama, who grew up in a well-to-do family of politicians, may have grown too out of touch with everyday people and their economic hardships.

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  • Some populist critics decried this ambition, and John Hammond, a well-to-do liberal impresario, denounced Ellington's concert works as vapid, accusing him of ignoring the troubles of his people.

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  • The latest work by playwright Richard Greenberg is a beautiful and touching look at the inner workings of a well-to-do family, their mistakes and the stories that bind them.

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  • But Axel was a handsome young man from a well-to-do and articulate family, and his death has struck a powerful chord, particularly among the middle class of Buenos Aires.

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  • The current ambassador, Robert Tuttle, and his wife, Maria, a well-to-do couple from Los Angeles with a taste for contemporary American art, have taken a special interest in the house.

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  • And if you walk through a well-to-do place like Teddington, you can see children's T-shirts in the shop window with the only slightly ironic slogan "My daddy's rich and my mother's good looking".

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  • Henry Graves, a well-to-do New York banker and Marilyn Graves' grandfather, had a passion for fancy watches with complications such as chimes, a perpetual calendar and displays for the phases of the moon.

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  • His father was a well-to-do builder and architect who, when the family moved to Scotland, sent his son to Fettes College, the so-called Eton of Scotland which Tony Blair was later to attend.

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  • But the man in the picture, Shane Keller, tells the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper of Rochester that it was actually taken in his basement in Brighton, a relatively well-to-do suburb with low crime that is nowhere near the poor neighborhoods that were the subject of the photo essay.

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  • And here's the thing -- there are a lot of well-to-do Americans, patriotic Americans, who understand this and are willing to do the right thing, willing to do their part to make this country strong.

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  • One must keep in mind that the category "Hispanic" can encompass anyone from a recent immigrant with little education to a highly educated, well-to-do person whose wealthy ancestors came this country generations ago.

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  • Republicans should have, in our view, done what they had done just a few months before, which is pass a short-term measure to delay implementation of the sequester, a measure that would have represented the balance that the public supports, asking the well-off and well-to-do to pay a little bit, not just seniors and middle-class families, and that then regular order could have continued as it is now, but without the sequester.

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  • Further up the mountain looms Carmel Center, a leafy, well-to-do neighbourhood that is always a few degrees cooler than the port area below.

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  • But you were born with intelligence and you were born into a privileged and well-to-do position in Iraq and you are a trained doctor.

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  • We're not going to, in any way, give a tax break to the well-to-do folks, even though he said during the Republican primary he was going to cut taxes for the top 1 percent.

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  • In 1905, to preserve the country's remaining stocks, a group of well-to-do East Coasters, including Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Frederic Remington, set up the American Bison Society (buffalo and bison being one and the same).

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  • Worse yet, by their petty parsimony, they risk squandering a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do very well strategically by doing good.

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  • Just to take one example, we do not know to a certainty that the House decided -- well, we do know to a certainty that the House decided not to charge perjury in a civil deposition.

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  • One reason for collapsing these categories together is that the maps often show streets to be a combination of the well-to-do and the fairly comfortable.

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  • So he decided to compete with the European manufacturers--as well as U.S. companies that might move into the space--by creating a higher-end product that would appeal to well-to-do parents.

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  • They are a modern, well-to-do, intellectual and cosmopolitan couple.

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  • Gadhafi, who took power in a military coup, was too clever to allow a well-organized army that might do the same to him.

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  • Logistics is all about details, and the long-term success of any business has a great deal to do with well-planned logistics.

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  • Here's an idea: Instead of merely attacking and counter-attacking a merger, companies would do well to explain their proposals -- their costs, benefits, valuations and long term implications -- to the people who really matter, the shareholders.

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  • By contrast, in the short term it reckons that the votes of a few conservationists and well-to-do owners of second homes weigh lightly in the balance against those who have to make a living out in constituencies such as Stroud and the Forest of Dean.

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  • Clinton and Gore should be under no illusion: Whether fairly or not, they will be held accountable if, as a result of a failure to ensure that both the public and private sectors are induced to take corrective action on the Millennium Bug -- and helped to acquire the means to do so -- a long-predicted, well-understood and utterly avoidable cataclysm befalls the Nation, its people and interests.

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