Mr Mahama hails from the Gonja ethnic group in northern Ghana, where he was born in 1958 to a well-off family.
He grew up in the quiet environment of a comfortably well-off family, whose attitudes had been shaped by memories of the War itself and the uncertainty of the post-War austerity years.
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Her mother's family had been relatively well-off in Tokyo before the war, but the evacuation drained the family's wealth.
She was older than their son, and though her family was well off, they couldn't compete socially with the Ko clan.
My family is not well off and I am fortunate to receive financial aid in order to attend college.
His father was a bank clerk and the family were not well off.
Janah grew up in various suburbs of Los Angeles in a family she describes as not well-off and attended public high school.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen was taking her birthday weekend off to spend it with her family as well as to enjoy her favourite pastime - horseracing.
While the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 reduced the top marginal tax rates for the well off, tax rates for other taxpayers were cut too and family tax credits were expanded.
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Father seems to have been fairly well off and, after the communist revolution of 1917, took his family, together with their chessboard and what he could muster of his fortune, to Palestine.
So the hope on East 78th Street is to sell the well-preserved houses on a quiet residential block off Lexington Avenue to a family or a developer looking to create a single 25-wide mansion by breaking through the wall between the houses.
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In "Pride and Prejudice, " after teenage Lydia Bennet runs off with the ne'er-do-well Wickham and risks her family's reputation, the heroine, Elizabeth, maintains a sarcastic yet ultimately generous tone with her flibberty-gibbet younger sister.
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For some of the students I saw at university in China, their tuition was being paid for by a number of people in the family, not just the parents, including grandparents, aunts and uncles, and even well-off cousins.
The next most common factors is a drop in household income, which can be related to the death of a spouse or an independent factor. (Note: People who shift from owning to renting are generally economically less well-off than those who continue to own.) And the third factor: nursing home entry of a family member.
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