Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changed in substance, although many of the women she wrote about 20 years ago have gone on to divorces, master's degrees and careers, and Bombeck and her husband are now the wealthy proprietors not of an $18,000 tract house near Dayton but of a lavish hacienda on a hilltop near Phoenix. "Women around the world are coming to the point where they are looking at their domestic situations and saying, 'My God, I'm going crazy, it's climbing-the-wall time,' " says Bombeck. She is 57 now ("somewhere between estrogen and death...
...Buddhist priest's most lucrative activity is writing kaimyo, posthumous names (example: "Heroic disciple to Buddha residing in ravine full of sunshine and nightingales"), without which deceased Buddhists cannot reach "the better world." A kaimyo can cost between $650 and $1,300; prices for more lavish names reach several million dollars. The fees are taxexempt. Many priests, however, have also turned entrepreneur, running lots, wedding halls and real estate agencies. Although priestly income is taxed at a top rate of 20%, vs. 43.3% for corporations, the bureau charges have been engaging in loose bookkeeping...
...International Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago is the gaudy showcase of American high tech. By day, 100,000 industry officials throng the aisles of vast McCormick Place, surrounded by towering displays at 1,381 booths. At night, they dip shrimp into cocktail sauce at lavish corporate receptions and gossip about the competition. A year ago at the show, people were predicting that it was just a matter of time before there would be a computer in every house. But last week much of the talk was about the slow growth in home computers...
...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...
...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...