Word: flashiest
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...huge - and hubristic - ambition. The Gulf emirate, which unlike the other emirates that join to form the U.A.E., has little oil or gas, and so has concentrated on building itself up as a vibrant business and transport hub and the home to some of the world's biggest, flashiest and most modern real estate. To lure in the masses, Dubai promoted itself as an income tax free resort for the world's rich and upper middle class. Dubai's master planners developed a signature over-the-top style geared to the tastes of newly minted wealth - an indoor ski slope...
...occasional embarrassing episode, such as when a Zaire defender tried to pre-empt a Brazil free kick by booting the ball away in the 1974 tournament. But since the early 1990s, the stature of African football has only grown: top African players are now superstars in the world's flashiest leagues, while players of African descent are increasingly competing for spots on Europe's best national teams, including once homogeneous squads like those of Germany and Italy. The continent's top teams have an unprecedented chance to make a run in the tournament next year on African soil. No African...
...simply the flashiest play from a defensive unit that only allowed Lehigh across midfield five times during the game...
...reason that you end up browsing these pieces about the First Lady is not that you’re actually curious about what the woman wears or really about anything having to do with her. You just subconsciously select the easiest, flashiest item on the screen—and these are usually the ones about Michelle Obama...
...while the gazes of spectators in the stands have been set firmly in the sky, watching baseball after baseball soar over fences at an astounding rate, captain Harry Douglas—perhaps Harvard’s most consistent, if not its flashiest hitter—has been quietly piecing together a breakout season, which continued in yesterday’s contest at Campanelli Stadium...