31.  The booming economy and rocketing stock prices have made a lot of ordinary people affluent and a lot of affluent people rich.

32.  The effect would be to keep less affluent people from suing, for fear of bankruptcy if they lose.

33.  The developers have in mind both rent-squeezed Hong Kongers and more affluent people who are looking for weekend places.

34.  The difference is that affluent people can usually afford the consequences.

35.  The explanation, they said, is the long bull market, which allowed affluent people to increase their spending by dipping into their stock portfolios.

36.  The Internal Revenue Service said on Monday that it conducted its most extensive raids ever last week, pursuing suspected promoters of tax evasion schemes for affluent people.

37.  The questions came on the first day of jury selection in the case, which has drawn national attention to the affluent young people of Darien.

38.  The Republicans would sharply raise Medicare premiums for affluent elderly people, reduce payments to doctors and hospitals and let beneficiaries switch from Medicare to private health plans.

39.  The techniques by which the states have cut income taxes have also tended to favor affluent people, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said.

40.  They assert that much of the money squeezed from Medicare would be used by the Republicans to help balance the budget and to finance tax cuts for affluent people.