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Word: lavishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa Republicans took the Democrats' cue, moving their caucuses to the lead-off position, and the press began to make Iowa the First Great Test. While New Hampshire had been significant for decades, it and Iowa together suddenly became critical. From 1976 onward, candidates would have to lavish time on these two unrepresentative states, massaging less than 2% of the population, while the other 98% of the electorate awaited the outcome. Without victory in at least one of these two rounds and a good showing in the other, a candidate would flunk the momentum test, lose his ability to attract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, What A Screwy System | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...conduct low-cost "retail" campaigns for months, testing their wares and encountering thousands of voters face to face. True, but the demands of that kind of campaigning work against prospects who hold difficult jobs -- New York Governor Mario Cuomo is the best current example -- and pressure candidates to lavish attention on small, well-organized interest groups. In the actual caucuses, less than 15% of enrolled Iowa voters usually participate, and the reported results are sometimes misleading. Drake University Professor Hugh Winebrenner, in a new book on the caucuses, The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event (Iowa State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, What A Screwy System | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

What no one realized was that, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the financial statements, the fat profits and the entire enterprise were part of an elaborate fiction. Instead of buying stocks for his customers, the SEC charged last week, Bloom used the $10 million to support a lavish life-style. He bought about $5 million worth of paintings, an $830,000 Manhattan condominium and a $2 million vacation house in posh East Hampton, Long Island. Bloom, who also owned a Mercedes-Benz and an Aston Martin convertible, went skiing in St. Moritz, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whiz Kid Who Wasn't | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City routinely plays host to Presidents, Prime Ministers and tycoons. But even for that glittering hostelry, the lavish auto show that General Motors put on last week was something special. During a three-day extravaganza, punctuated by a black-tie dinner and bubbly receptions, an army of executives and engineers greeted some 16,000 invited guests: GM stockholders and workers, Wall Street analysts, suppliers, mayors, even teachers and schoolchildren. On display in the Waldorf ballrooms was a dizzying array of 24 GM cars and trucks, ranging from the rugged GMC Sierra Pickup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogerama Comes to the Waldorf | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Similarly, the report relates how the private fund raisers Carl Channell and Richard Miller collected some $10 million for contra support but spent only $4.5 million on the rebel forces. The rest of the money went into lavish offices, fancy limousines and high salaries. The two have pleaded guilty to tax fraud for claiming that their operations were entitled to an IRS exemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the Prosecutor | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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