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...would generate. This was not the way Wall Street traditionally operated, but in that hotly competitive environment many firms followed Drexel's lead. The resulting riches created a whole new spending culture as Wall Streeters found new ways to dispose of their wealth, buying multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartments, building lavish estates in Connecticut and on Long Island, commuting to work in limos, seaplanes and helicopters...
...soap, coffee and sausage. Meat that is not nine-tenths gristle is seldom available. Yet special shops for higher-ups are well stocked. On New Year's Eve people who rushed to the scene of a car crash in the Ukrainian town of Chernigov were incensed to discover a lavish cache of meats and vodka in the trunk of the damaged official vehicle. They seized the delicacies and smashed the car to bits, then towed its carcass to the local party headquarters...
Frankly, Atlantic City in the spring is not a whole lot different from Atlantic City in any other season. The casinos are still packed with visitors, the vast majority of whom spend their entire stay inside one of these lavish tributes to beveled glass, muzak, and blinding gold chains...
Popularly known as the Borscht Belt, the Catskill mountains some 60 miles north of Manhattan were where generations of New York City's Jews went to play. The area's hotels specialized in big-league eating, nonstop schmoozing and lavish nighttime entertainment. The most serious summertime sport was the mating game, with anxious mothers steering their daughters at those waiters known to be in medical or law school...
...that number, which has been challenged, is proportionally equivalent to 22,000 Americans. Add 314 Panamanian troops, and Panama's loss in a couple of days is equivalent to America's during the entire Viet Nam War. Yet compare the American press's indifference to Panamanian deaths with its lavish emphasis on -- and, it seems, exaggeration of -- the death count in Rumania...