Word: lavish
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...they do that, they'll be run out of town on a rail." Indeed, the new fees have infuriated politicians and consumer advocates. They maintain that the charges usually hit individuals with $1,000 or less in their accounts, while wealthy depositors pay almost no fees and receive lavish services. Contends Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "We are witnessing an increasing denial of banking services to the poor. The trend is toward serving the rich and ignoring the rest...
Junior Collins, who was the only upperclassman on the court for much of the game, was equally lavish with her praise. "Our new personal is just awesome," she said...
Harvard Coach Joe Restic, never one to lavish undue praise on his players, practically gushes when describing his star fullback. "He has football sense on the field, he knows what to do," the Crimson mentor says...
...warplanes climbing faster than an F-15 fighter, one defense expert has suggested that it would take the entire U.S. military budget to buy a single aircraft by the middle of the 21st century. Last week a Government study cited one possible reason for the runaway prices: lavish pay for the executives and employees of some major U.S. defense contractors...
...progressive and lavish agenda that emerged in the 1960s--to which many contemporary Democrats still cling--resulted from an unsophisticated naivete which dominated America at the time. We believed that it was possible to solve all of our problems, purity our still imperfect society, with little or no cost to the people. After all, the economic pie had consistently been growing at mercurial rates since World War II. No redistribution of wealth would be necessary to clean up the environment and eradicate poverty. Nor would civil strife arise as the liberals attempted to erase sexual and racial discrimination. Gripped...