Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Basque regional government in Bilbao really wanted the Guggenheim there; it backed Gehry's design to the hilt and poured money into the venture. It provided a free 249,000-sq.-ft. site on a bend in the Nervion, the river that passes through Bilbao; the basic construction cost of $100 million; $50 million more for new acquisitions; a $20 million advisory fee to the Guggenheim; and $12 million a year in operating costs. Hands up, anyone who can imagine an American city doing that entirely with public money...
...from a prepared text in Chinese in an elaborately decorated marble hall of the Main Building at Drexel. With a plush, specially rolled-out red carpet underneath Jiang's feet and gold and blue Drexel banners in English and Chinese characters draping the hallways, Drexel was clothed to the hilt. Painters put the fin- ishing touches on doors just hours before the Secret Service would escort Jiang through. Behind the president hung two enormous flags, each three stories long, of the United States and the People's Republic of China...
...avid scuba diver, LeBow has enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan...
...everything he owned before his arrest in June 1994: condominiums in New York City and California; property in Mexico; his 50% interest in a string of HoneyBaked Ham franchises; even his Ferrari Mondial and the infamous Ford Bronco. What he hasn't sold outright he has mortgaged to the hilt: he borrowed $3 million against his Rockingham home and used a Warhol serigraph of himself as security for a loan he took from his children's estate. He has tapped his homeowner's insurance to pay for his defense in the civil trial...
...flyer miles were accumulated in all directions. Some spent their way into debt simply because their condition required it. But a return to life means a return to life's responsibilities. "A lot of people I know are facing troubles because they spent their credit-card money to the hilt, mortgaged their homes," says Dr. Jerome Goldstein, a San Francisco physician. "They have all these bills, and are wondering how the hell they're going to pay them...