There are well-heeled professionals, too, with their expensive motorcycles - Malcolm Forbes was here last year - and all kinds of working men and women, some with children in tow.

The most dramatic direct action was taken at Luxulyan, a village set in a beautiful farming area with a local population mix of traditional farmers, well-heeled professionals and not so well-heeled smallholders.

For the 2005 hajj, 1,800 people booked trips through Dar El Salam, many of them well-heeled Muslim professionals who live throughout the United States.

Opening flashy stores with broad selections and expanded service, well-heeled and seasoned professionals are slowly displacing the mom- and pop- pioneers.

Once a year, on a Saturday in early fall, well-heeled professionals make the hour's drive from Torshavn to Tjornuvik for the Stakksdagur, the festal day that inaugurates the community's slaughtering season.

Market research found that the agency had a dated, stodgy image, especially among well-heeled professionals 30 to 50 years old.

But all these ambitious, well-educated, once well-heeled professionals are clinging to a life style they no longer have the means to support.

We're unquestionably a fairly affluent bunch and one of the criticisms of the free schools policy is that only well-heeled professionals are able to take advantage of it.

There is an entirely different clientele on this 24-hour party island now: well-heeled, thirtysomething professionals enjoying some upmarket indulgence.

Altogether, the well-heeled professionals engineering the biggest takeover to date of a software manufacturer should garner about $35 million from the $3.5 billion acquisition, according to those involved in the transaction.