Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surely it is the responsibility of a society as wealthy as ours to ensure that no one has to sleep on a grate. Just as surely, it is the height of unfairness to take away housing funds from the poor while maintaining lavish deductions for middle-and upper-class homeowners. Congress should eliminate this $32 billion dollar handout to the wealthy and use that money to provide adequate housing for the truly needy...
...COOK by Julia Child (Knopf; $50). The first tome in nine years from the nation's queen of cuisine is, expectedly, an instructional masterpiece: precise directions, lavish illustrations, wise little tips on timing and the proper tools. The recipes are mostly Euroclassics with variations, many lightened for health-conscious American palates. A boon for beginners; a must for the more experienced...
...Lampoon is a rich organization that throws lavish parties. We all know this. The Crimson should not need to make an editorial policy of mocking the Lampoon. It is childish and unprofessional. And it is a waste of our space and your time...
Lampoonery II: Ostentation may have gone out with the Reagans, but the Harvard Lampoon doesn't seem to have caught on yet. A lavish bash the other night for millionaire motorcycle aficionado Malcolm S. Forbes, which reportedly cost somewhere in the $10,000 range, featured such tuxedo-clad cast in the hundreds. Once inside the Lampy castle, Forbes and crew were feted at the head table with a lavish meal. Other guests didn't get dinner, but there were drinks and hors d'oeuvres for all. But despite the big bucks lavished on the celebration, everything did not go without...
...powers have already begun to explore. At the same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more than a third of their debt buying arms. Surely at least some of the $200 billion a year that poorer countries lavish on their military establishments could be better spent on saving the environment...