Word: lavishly
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...bankers know that, and you’ve been busy cutting costs wherever possible at your firms. Problem is, you think it will actually help your firms if you cut down on the number of Harvard students you recruit this fall, and if you slash the logo-imprinted giveaways, lavish dinners and other such perks you used to use to lure us into your companies, back in the good old days...
...need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores, and the American urge to lavish gifts upon one's family, friends and of course oneself will do the rest. Maybe they'll need a miracle...
Members of the brigade have a guidebook--the 11-volume, Arabic-language Encyclopedia of Jihad. Its 6,000 pages, prefaced by lavish praise of Osama bin Laden, detail the practices of terror and urban-guerrilla warfare. There is even a CD-ROM version. The tome includes instruction in using various arms as well as Semtex--one of the most popular explosives among terrorists--and TNT. Graphics help explain how to rig an envelope with C4 explosive and how to turn an apartment-building door, a radio, a cigarette pack, a television set or a couch into a deadly, booby-trapped...
...lavish lifestyle associated with Harvard rarely includes financial aid. To a subset of wealthy students, Harvard’s estimated $37,750 cost for the 2002-2003 year has never been on their radar. Meredith E. James ’04, whose father is a New York City investment banker, is reflective of this population. “My family is comfortable. There is no reason we should apply for aid when we can afford school already...
Despite the bigger budget ($35 million), a radical change of scene and an all-white cast, From Hell has some striking similarities to the Hughes twins' previous work: it's populated by hookers, and even good men are seduced by drugs. Depp's lavish, opium-induced visions help him solve the crime and let the brothers show off their visual bravado. "It was an interesting way to tell what was going on in his head," says Allen. ("We make no secret that we smoke marijuana," says Albert, who calls it "an aid to creativity...