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...charge as much as 3% of the value of a check. A 1991 Los Angeles city council survey found 133 check-cashing offices -- vs. only 19 bank and savings-and-loan branches -- serving South Central L.A.'s largely minority population of nearly 600,000. Right next door, more affluent (and Anglo) Gardena had 21 bank branches for fewer than 50,000 residents. Elsewhere, many consumers are fleeing to credit unions to escape the escalating bank costs. Membership in these nonprofit institutions, which are typically linked to workplaces, grew nearly 12% in the past five years, to more than 65 million...
...young novelist's portrait of affluent suburbia in the 1970s...
...dozen powerful strokes on the buttocks with a sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human rights? Isn't the shipshape and affluent little city-state molded by Lee Kuan Yew a model of civic virtues...
Born in Brooklyn in 1927 to a once affluent Jewish family that lost everything in the Depression, Ross was a young opportunist without an opportunity until he married a woman whose father owned a string of funeral parlors. Within a few years, Ross expanded the company's businesses to include car rentals, parking lots and cleaning services. In 1967 Ross acquired a powerful talent agency, and two years later, he bought the faltering Warner Bros. studio...
Kelly said statistics show those who oppose abortion generally tend to be "women, minorities, the poor, the uneducated." People who are "white, well-educated, affluent, and males" tend to be more supportive of abortion rights...