Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending and a more aggressive, bolder stance by the U.S. in foreign affairs. These candidates frequently note the turn to the right taken by voters in England and Canada this year and predict the oft-predicted end of the New Deal era of Big Government and big spending on lavish social programs. Says Baker: "There is a sea change coming in American politics. The country has been building toward it for years, but was frustrated by Watergate." Says John Connally: "This will be the most important election in this century." And from the Democratic side, Ted Kennedy predicts: "This will...
...willing, reports of the deposed shah's affliction with cancer are true.'' So said Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, with his customary generosity to a fallen foe. The reports were indeed correct. Last week Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, flew from his lavish, well-guarded home in exile at Cuernavaca, Mexico, to New York City's LaGuardia Airport on a chartered jet that airline officials had first been told would only be carrying a ''valuable shipment'' from the Bank of Mexico. Weak and frail-looking, the Shah shuffled into a limousine...
...place was just lavish," Paolillo said, adding that police were trying to locate the owners of the club...
...extravagance. He excelled at raising venture capital (J.P. Morgan helped to bankroll his effort to invent the electric light), but had a genius for spending even more than he raised. Not on himself; his oddball personal habits were far from extravagant. But no sum was too great to lavish on his laboratories; Edison ordered the most expensive materials on earth, like platinum, by the pound. He was also the creator of the modern research and development lab, which he called an "invention factory." He was the first to hire a team of scientists and technicians and set them to work...
...keeping with the business-like mood of Deng's modernization effort, the 30th celebration was strikingly subdued. Gone were the lavish fireworks displays and parades of earlier anniversaries. Still, the New China News Agency had promised that Peking would be given "a new look, with many billboards freshly painted." As it turned out, this meant that some Mao quotations were painted over and replaced with road safety signs and exhortations to strive for modernization. Peking's 7.5 million population salvaged some holiday spirit from the capital's markets, which were specially stockpiled with 1 million chickens...