Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the audience for big network events dwindling, such lavish spending might seem foolhardy. But NBC executives were upbeat. The Games will begin in late July, they point out, when TV competition should be relatively light. (Because of the time difference, however, most events will be shown on tape rather than live.) What's more, NBC will recoup part of its investment by selling the rights for some events to cable. "We didn't go into this to lose money," said NBC president Robert Wright. Increasingly, in the high-stakes world of network TV, it just seems to work...
Step 3: Faculty Office Space. Distinguished tenured faculty deserve only the best, and the most lavish, comfortable settings for offices in the Harvard Square area are the buildings currently housing the nine final clubs...
...appointees flanked Bush on a stage in the old Executive Office Building, while the president-elect introduced each of them with lavish praise...
...date was portentous: on Oct. 19, precisely one year after the stock market crashed, the chief executive of RJR Nabisco was the host of a lavish meal at Atlanta's Waverly Hotel. Ross Johnson's guests had come to expect such treatment. A brash and hard-driving manager with a fondness for fine living, he liked to treat RJR Nabisco's board members to an elegant evening out before the next day's regular meeting...
COURBET RECONSIDERED, Brooklyn Museum, New York City. Vast landscapes, lavish nudes and masterful portraits in an ambitious retrospective of paintings by the 19th century realist. Through...