Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bills' success is the result, in large part, of lavish trades and draft picks, and canny free-agent signings. Wilson gave a free hand and an open ! checkbook to Polian and coach Marv Levy, 60, now in his third year with the Bills after spells in the U.S. Football League and the Canadian Football League. The result: 15 of 22 starters are top-round draft picks. Building around veteran All-Pro nose tackle, 285-lb. Fred Smerlas, Buffalo has structured the A.F.C.'s best defense. They have held opponents to just one touchdown in the past four games and have...
...Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum (Morrow; $25) is not for fair-weather bakers but an exhaustive scripture on lavish baking. If the recipes are brilliantly explicit, it is because Beranbaum has spent years teaching, and knows where amateurs usually go wrong. Basic cakes and fillings are included, along with how-to's on decoration. Among her creations are cakes that look like pinecones, forests and dotted Swiss cascades. There are even a few low- cholesterol recipes...
...tobacco-and-food conglomerate he had helped assemble only three years earlier be "put into play" and broken up, he had reason to believe that the company's board of directors would support him. After all, he had treated the outside directors on RJR's board well, paying them lavish fees and providing access to the company's corporate jets. Moreover, his offer was the largest leveraged-buyout bid in history and would give RJR's stockholders a rich, immediate payout...
...little rule, and she broke her own little rule." With that quip, Nancy Reagan's press secretary Elaine Crispen tried to defuse the controversy that erupted last week after TIME reported that the First Lady had failed to disclose the borrowing of lavish designer outfits, a practice she had promised to stop six years ago. By week's end the question of whether borrowed outfits were hanging in the First Lady's closet had been eclipsed by the White House's gyrating attempts to explain away the affair...
Nancy Reagan's fondness for designer couture that she once contended was beyond her ability to buy has not abated. Mrs. Reagan has been borrowing costly dresses, matched outfits and jewelry from leading fashion houses on both coasts on a lavish scale. This despite her public promise in February 1982 that she would stop the practice, after her acceptance of such fancy items posed a political problem for the White House...