Word: lavishly
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...showers that are getting the most lavish attention at the moment, says Peter Sallick, CEO of Waterworks. "People are creating a sitting area; they're creating multiple showering areas, adding hand showers and different types of showerheads." Waterworks, Dornbracht, Kohler and even plain old American Standard are responding by offering higher-and-higher-end fixtures. All in all, spending on bathroom remodeling went up 33% (to $20 billion) from 2001 to 2003, says the National Kitchen and Bath Association. Sure, some of it is for waterproof TVs and music systems, but more than gadgets, says Sallick, the biggest luxury...
...Beijing Olympics were to be the most lavish ever. China would spend $34 billion to refit the capital with sparkling new subways and 10 state-of-the-art stadiums. The spending was the plan of former Communist Party chief and former President Jiang Zemin, who took credit for Beijing's winning bid in 2001. The Olympic projects, it was hoped, would mark China's economic growth and proclaim its arrival as a world power. Now times have changed. Last week Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic-organizing committee, scrapped half the planned stadiums in a demonstration of what...
...Occupying the 11th-floor podium is its new "hotel within a hotel," Plateau, tel: (852) 2584 7688. This self-contained pleasure zone offers 23 spiffy guest rooms in modern minimalist style (futons, infinity-edge baths, floor cushions) plus a spa, lavish pool area and alfresco dining. If the overall look seems vaguely reminiscent of the big screen, that's because it was created by architect John Morford, who helped in the design of the Park Hyatt Tokyo?the setting for Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation...
...flat for one that Hollinger owned in the same building, diverting "a $2.5 million value from Hollinger to Black" The F.D.R. Papers Black had Hollinger "pay $8.9 million to acquire Franklin D. Roosevelt papers and memorabilia without ... board approval." He was writing a biography of F.D.R. at the time Lavish Galas The company footed the bills for Barbara Black's birthday party ($42,870), for "summer drinks" ($24,050) and for dinners with board director Henry Kissinger ($28,480) Hefty Salaries Black and his executives earned more than $218 million in "management fees." In one case, Black's wife...
...Such contracts, of course, pale in comparison with the frenzy that will accompany the Beijing Games. Hundreds of multinationals are already jockeying for a chance to bid for Chinese ad contracts once Athens wraps up. To prove that the Chinese capital is worthy of such lavish attention, Beijing earlier this month announced its latest urban makeover campaign: $12 million for thousands of new toilets, including a stable of self-cleaning "five-star" lavatories. Already, Chinese tourists in Athens are sniping about how little Greece has to show off for its Olympics. "Athens is in Europe, but it is quite undeveloped...