Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...London audiences of the early 18th century, Italian opera meant heroic plots, lavish sets and dazzling vocalism. It also meant a German-born composer with an anglicized name who had successfully transplanted a hothouse species to the neighborhood around Covent Garden...
...guest of honor at the lavish state dinner was Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. But when Burt Reynolds, 47, arrived at the White House arm in arm with his old flame Dinah Shore, 66, the Washington press corps quickly turned its attention from international to personal politics. "I wouldn't tell you if it was true," stonewalled Reynolds, as he tried to fend off a barrage of questions about his relationships with Shore and Actress Sally Field, 37, who also happened to be in town. Reynolds was eventually pulled to safety by Nancy Reagan, 62, who teasingly told...