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...plants. Hart, although much more restrained, countered with an implication that Mondale is part of a discredited past; nearly all his spots close with the suggestive tag line, "We can't afford to go back." One Hart ad suggests that Mondale's attacks are hypocritical by quoting lavish praise that the former Vice President bestowed in 1979 to aid Hart's Senate reelection campaign...
...dirt-poor, despotically ruled homeland pursues lavish plans...
...Sebe has seized upon the dubious gift with ebullience. Although unemployment in Ciskei has been running at 50%, its leader remains recklessly spendthrift. Just two weeks ago he announced a lavish scheme to furnish his dirt-poor homeland with an international airport, a harbor and an air force. Such tragicomic aspirations and the tyrannical rule that enforces them have made Sebe's fief something of an embarrassment even to its stepmother. Said the moderate Johannesburg Star: "Ciskei has become a byword for all the worst excesses of banana republics...
...Christian Democrats. It has also been open knowledge in San Salvador that the Venezuelan Institute of Popular Education (IVEPO) has been used as a conduit for foreign assistance to the Christian Democrats. This became visible last February when Duarte's ill-funded party suddenly began using glossy posters, lavish billboards and slick TV ads. D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) retaliated by running a newspaper ad accusing the Venezuelan government of meddling in Salvadoran affairs. On Saturday, in another full-page ad, ARENA directly charged the CIA with channeling funds to Duarte's campaign...
Many experts believe that lavish raises for corporate higher-ups will hurt the U.S. economy. Big executive paychecks, they fear, could spark an upsurge in inflation because rank-and-file workers and union leaders can use them to justify higher wage demands. Moreover, higher wages would make the U.S. even less competitive with foreign producers than it is at present...