Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan "LeBow...Le Bankrupt. Any questions...
Lincoln's boss spent the company's money as if it were his own. Jetting around in a fleet of aircraft known as "Charlie's air force," he once went on a three-week tour of Europe with more than 20 family members in tow. His lavish parties would feature the host wandering around cradling a bottle of Dom Perignon, sometimes encouraging guests to jump in the pool fully clothed. His corporate executives would often find thick, neat packets of hundred-dollar bills under their plates when they went to Keating's house for dinner. Family members got a little...
Your story about the sizable year-end bonuses paid out by Wall Street brokerage and investment-banking firms to key employees [BUSINESS, Dec. 30-Jan. 6] blew me away. Despite the fact that their earnings underperformed Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, many Wall Street firms still gave out lavish sums of money. Your article mentioned that top traders and bankers at firms like Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch "will pocket $5 million" apiece. When will Mr. Average American wake up and see the extent to which he is being ripped off? And what will it take to make this...
...opportunity to all in what he called a new era and a new land. Cannon fire punctuated the applause that followed as some 250,000 people withstood near-freezing temperatures on the Mall to witness this celebration of American self-government. Though this Inauguration was a smaller, less lavish affair than Clinton's Hollywood-style blowout in 1993, the crowd seemed jubilant, buoyed by the gospel choir, Jessye Norman's powerful rendition of "America the Beautiful," and the verse of Arkansas poet Miller Williams. During the day that is set aside every four years to celebrate Democracy's peaceful transition...
...chameleon, sometime movie star and cultural provocateur, few have been able to avert their eyes from Madonna for too long. Her new film, Evita, which opens Christmas Day in New York City and Los Angeles and in January around the country, has been trumpeted with a publicity campaign so lavish and long winded that many people probably think the movie has already opened and they've already seen it. Evita is, to be sure, in many ways a landmark: the most ambitious musical Hollywood has turned out in years; the culmination of an almost 20-year effort to bring...