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Word: lavished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bail was set at either $2 million or $1.75 million for each of the accused. Most of the mobsters easily posted it. They put up 10% in cash and rights to their personal property, including some lavish homes, to guarantee their appearance for trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Night for Chest Pains | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Despite these diverging views, Fahd and Reagan hit it off personally during three meetings, one of them with only a translator present, and at a lavish state banquet at the White House. They had no trouble agreeing on the need to keep pressure on the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and support efforts to end the Iran-Iraq war. Reagan avoided substantive matters in his banquet remarks (they were not a toast, since the Muslim guests of honor were not served wine), concentrating instead on Fahd's well-known passion for soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Bids in the Middle East | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...troupe that can sing and even dance--together, the group scenes are everything a drag musical about witches is supposed to be. Even the faithful kickline gets a creative in this year's show--not to mention that the legs even approximate unison. Of course, the stunningly lavish sets and costumes--which make Loeb mainstage show, look like church theatricals--do their part...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Taking in a Show--Or Two | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

Diene Arbus begins with the photographer's Fairy tale birth in March of 1923 into a world of wealth and fashion. Arbus's father, David Nemerov, headed. New York's extravagant Russeks department store, reputed to be the place where millionaires bought gifts to lavish on their "kept" women. Her mother, the lovely Gertrude Russeks, was the daughter of the store's founder. Forever ill at ease with the over-indulgent life style her parents provided, the young Diane would force herself to "stand on the window ledge of her parents' apartment in the San Remo, 11 stories above Central...

Author: By Eunice L. An, | Title: Arbus's Freaky World | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan extols them. Venture capitalists lavish money on them. They seem to be everywhere, starting their own companies, making megabucks in everything from computers to package-delivery services, and turning up on talk shows as the new Beautiful People of the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come the Intrapreneurs | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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