Word: lavishly
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...influence. While the end of the cold war relegated the continent to the West's back burner, China has courted Africa's 53 nations diligently. Trade volume between China and Africa is a record $10 billion and Beijing continues to increase aid - with no pesky strings attached. The lavish attention has paid off. Beijing's successful bid last month for the 2008 Olympics turned in part on the votes of the African bloc. And since 1990, China has counted on support from African countries in eluding censure at the United Nations for its human rights record...
...that near-term threats to U.S. security are too great and too many to risk a rebuilding that would leave forces temporarily inadequate. The restructurers? is that the Pentagon?s current needs assessment - and its two-war requirement, which is a cinch to go in any case - is too lavish for the world of today...
...claims they were at school together. Michel can't recall him, but he lets him into his life anyway. And why not? He has a miserable job, a sarcastic wife, three whining daughters and an auto that lacks air conditioning. Harry has mysterious amounts of time and money to lavish on them. Michel suddenly gets a new car, his grasping parents soon disappear, and the rest of his family begins gratifyingly to perk up. By the end of the film, Michel and his family have everything they ever wanted and some boons they never imagined...
...disease. Zheng He, too, died on his final, seventh voyage and was buried at sea. Ma Huan, a translator on several of Zheng He's expeditions, recalls how Saint Elmo's fire once blazed atop the mast of the treasure ship, prompting a shaken Zheng He to offer more lavish sacrifices to Tianfei...
...major-league broker who, starting last September, was taking mammoth positions in several high-profile tech stocks. When his positions topped the maximum allowed by regulators, he allegedly began placing orders through a group of Calcutta operators, including Dinesh Singhania, a local broker widely disliked for his lavish tastes and arrogance. Since most of these orders were financed with gray money, they couldn't be traced back to Parekh. In its May report, SEBI said it believes the Big Bull was using the Calcutta gray market to ramp up the prices of his stocks. If that is the case...