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Rosen says he sees a "dichotomy among the current researchers, between the diehard hippies and the more lavish travelers...
...more lavish travelers may indeed be more numerous now, if Let's Go's growing commercialization is an indication. In addition to putting out books, it now sells knapsacks and other travel gear, started its own travel agency, and even puts ads in the guides...
...most talked-about new schemes for persuading a prized employee to stay with a company is to lavish on the person something called junior stock. Conceived in 1979 by Genentech, the bioengineering firm, junior stock has been widely used by such firms as Tele-Video Systems and Amdahl, two computer companies, and Cetus, another bioengineering concern. The plan has been particularly popular in California's Silicon Valley, where firms need all the incentives they can find to keep the engineers and scientists from job hopping. Some 200 high-tech firms have either issued junior shares or considered doing...
Trump builds big and lavish...
...Giancana was responsible for untold murders, he was a stickler for social form. Dinner guests were ceremoniously presented to Antoinette. She was introduced, for example, to a "Mr. Humphreys," although "the rest of the world might know him as Murray the Camel." Giancana offered a silent prayer before the lavish meals the family shared with notorious killers. Few guests could be counted on as regulars at Giancana's table. Some periodically vanished into penitentiaries. Others were removed by hired guns. Yet Giancana never failed to bring his family to the wake of a fellow mobster, even when the deceased...