Word: extravaganzas
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...persistent credit crunch has its roots in the go-go lending years of the 1980s, when banks and savings and loan associations issued an extravaganza of careless loans to real-estate sharks and corporate raiders, oil drillers and developing countries. "All you had to do to get a loan in the 1980s was have a pulse," says Jon Goodman, vice chairman of California United Bank. The resulting avalanche of bad loans forced the U.S. to allocate nearly $100 billion to bail out the S&Ls and set aside a $70 billion credit line for cleaning up the banks. To prevent...
Turner sampled the Pancake Extravaganza, whileFonda, the star of numerous exercise videos,virtuously stuck with yogurt, wheat germ andherbal...
Like high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects. The Irish band U2, which used to pride itself on its spartan, no-glitz performance style, has invested $2.5 million in an extravaganza it calls the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast, to be unveiled when the group begins a 15-city U.S. swing that will run from Aug. 11 into November. Dates are still being added, but the tour will also hit Toronto and Montreal. The show employs nine screens, with the two largest measuring 20 ft. by 30 ft., three dozen 27-in. television monitors and a satellite dish. During the concert...
...tell what was for dinner in the Union from the middle of the Yard. I could discern the faint differences between the aroma of the scorched oil they used to cook fried chicken and the slightly pungent, greasy scent of spicy waffle fries. You could never get Hamburger Extravaganza past...
...traveling show and ice cream truck, which held a circus extravaganza on the Memorial Hall lawn Wednesday, raised $877 for Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA...