Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimated 1 million Americans carry the HIV virus, which causes AIDS, and Paul Monette is one of them. Three years ago he earned lavish praise for Borrowed Time, an unflinching memoir about his lover's death from that horrific disease. Last year he wrote Afterlife, the fictional story of three AIDS widowers. Now Monette is back with a new novel, Halfway Home, in which AIDS again plays a significant role. This time, however, his narrative is driven not by the experiences of those who are defeated by the disease but by those who defiantly make a life for themselves...
...lavish yet ecologically aware celebration that lasted all afternoon and drew hundreds of merry-makers to the stretch of Memorial Drive between Western Ave. and JFK St., 43 environmental groups set up booths on the sidewalks to sell food, clothing and knick-knacks, and present information...
...pork, however, comes wrapped in a khaki uniform. The federal budget is larded with highly questionable nonmilitary projects that receive lavish funding while more urgent national needs like fighting infant mortality and improving education are strapped for cash. None of the individual programs is large enough to worsen the $318 billion deficit significantly. But lumped together, the plethora of porcine projects adds huge sums to federal outlays. Freshman Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire has been combing the budget for examples of nondefense pork, specifically projects that were never voted or debated but somehow were slipped into appropriations bills...
...LOOK at some of Atwater's finer moments to see if President Bush's pit bull deserved such lavish praise...
...could not beat the Democrats because of the Democratic ideology. He argued that the rational choice for human beings is the selfish choice. Hence, by choosing a conservative president, the people make sure that they will have a president who is stingy on taxes and a Congress that is lavish in its spending, Kesler said...