Word: lavishly
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...some going hungry, communist officials in Hanoi recently decided to hand out $12 to millions of impoverished Vietnamese on the eve of the nation's most important celebration, Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Tet is Vietnam's equivalent of Christmas; it's a holiday of family gatherings and lavish spending on gifts. But this year, a time for giving turned out to be a time for taking. It appears that many of the cash handouts were pocketed by corrupt local officials.(See pictures from the 1979 border war between Vietnam and China...
...increase in pay over time was just an increase in scale." The sums of money managed and size of transactions arranged by Wall Street grew exponentially, starting in the 1980s. So did profits and pay. You can argue that CEO compensation is a rigged game, but on Wall Street, lavish pay packages have never been restricted to the top of the executive ladder. Top-performing investment bankers and traders were paid big sums because otherwise they might jump ship to a rival bank or a hedge fund. And nobody was forcing rich people and pension funds to entrust their money...
...travelled to Ithaca, New York and New York City to square off against league foes while we—men’s hoops writers Timothy J. Walsh, Dennis Zheng, and myself–sojourned with them. And while the Crimson basketball team suffered two defeats, we experienced the lavish lifestyle of the road.Well, sort of.Cruising to the tunes of T. Pain, Lil’ Wayne and the Goo Goo Dolls, our bro-some hauled over 780 miles through five states. However, highlights from the trip would extend well beyond basketball games and the song “Mrs. Officer...
...During his decade in power, he has made Venezuela a stronghold of anti-Americanism and political radicalism. A visionary critic of the Washington Consensus, he initially pledged to end Venezuelan inequality. After nationalizing oil contracts in the country and forcing out foreign investors, he has used the money for lavish projects in Venezuela that have bought him unprecedented support...
Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi must have seemed an incongruous sight—bedecked in his lavish, though traditional, gold attire with trademark sunglasses, the leader of Libya humbly laid his head down on the table at the African Union summit in Ethiopia in a gesture of diplomatic defeat. The normally confident Gaddafi was facing stiff resistance to his newest geopolitical plan, the United States of Africa. Unsurprisingly, many African nations have reacted coolly to Gaddafi’s plans for a politically united Africa, with the relatively wealthy and stable nations of South Africa, Ethiopia, and Kenya taking a prominent...