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...crucial items that surfaced only after Congress approved the project. The superconducting magnets had to be designed a second time after the first try failed. And in June, Energy Department investigators reported that employees were living it up at SSC's Dallas headquarters, freely spending taxpayers' money on liquor, lavish parties and office decor ($56,000 went for potted plants). Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary fired the University Research Association, the nonprofit consortium running the project, for failure to track costs and schedules...
David Benson (Rob Mitchell), a boyish gardening fanatic, and Tony Pringle (Michael Keamy), his HIV-positive lover, are accused of stealing from the house of Henry Gordon (Michael Thurston), known for his "lavish parties" attended by a large percentage of Newcastle's gay population...
During the 30-day election campaign, both major candidates doled out lavish promises to potential supporters. Bhutto offered a new joint parnership between the government and business and paid lip service to Qureshi's reforms, but she pandered to feudal landowners with promises of new price supports for agricultural commodities. She also pitched heavily for the support of women. Nawaz Sharif stood on his record of having launched privatization and several grandiose development projects, which have left the country nearly bankrupt...
...supply of lavish praise from celebrities met demand for the attention of one of academia's most famous personalities last night at the 85th birthday bash for Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith...
...form works because our memories do replay moments from our pasts like a film; rarely do they occur to us in sequential order. Director Wayne Wang weaves the nonlinear script together exquisitely, and we recognize the influence of producer Oliver Stone in sweeping shots of landscape and lavish depictions of the costumes of upper-class, old-world China...