Word: lavish
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...every campaign trail to the White House, and you will find embedded in the asphalt the flattened form of a once captivating outsider. The story line plays out as follows: he seizes the imagination with a compelling message and personality; he upsets the dynamic of the race; the media lavish attention and praise on him (there is talk that he has created a phenomenon that will change politics); he makes a rookie mistake or two under the TV lights; the reporters turn on him; his fanatical legions realize he wasn't the guy they thought he was; and finally...
...Normally we have students who are surprised that Harvard doesn’t have lavish accomodations—carpeting in rooms, air conditioning and so on,” he said...
...being taken advantage of," says Krens, "but every once in a while we'd like some consideration ... because it's a space we own and have in- vested in." He lobbied mightily for Matthew Barney, whose multimedia solo show at the New York Guggenheim this spring won lavish praise. But the State Department chose Fred Wilson, whose installation about Africans in Venice through the ages has been panned by the critics. One even suggested that the best reason to visit the U.S. pavilion was the air conditioning. You'd never guess any of this from Krens' demeanor in Venice...
This year, students expecting the traditional lavish fare at a Radcliffe-sponsored Senior Soiree were disappointed to find that the Radcliffe Association had stopped footing the bill. The event instead was funded by the Harvard Alumni Association, with Radcliffe administrators noting that it no longer shared responsibility for undergraduate alums...
...majority of shareholders, and institutional investors voted heavily in his favor. And so Aldinger, who now ranks among the highest-paid executives in Britain, will take home $3 million in salary, $12 million in guaranteed annual bonuses, and $21 million in stock grants over three years, plus other lavish benefits on top of the $20.3 million paid him by HSBC for having his contract terminated with Household International, a firm HSBC recently acquired. But at least HSBC has outperformed the market. It's the idea of "rewards for failure" that has really fueled the fat-cat fuss in Britain. Just...