Word: lavishness
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...Both knew that matters must not get out of hand, that neither player could be forced to slink away in humiliation. Add two numbers: China's $80 billion trade surplus with the U.S. and 54,000 Chinese students in America. Nobody else in the world will grant China such lavish access to wealth and knowledge, and Beijing knows...
Owner Mary-Catherine Diebel pauses in her planning for a lavish Easter brunch...
...giving Beijing the Games would do nothing to help us promote democracy in China. In contrast, the symbolic meaning of the Olympics would lavish unwarranted praise on China, undermining these efforts. The Olympics have long served as a testament to the need for governments to respect the dignity of individual achievement by bringing the best athletes in the world to compete in a peaceful arena. The IOC must ask whether this ideal is compatible with a government that consistently uses brute force to quash political and religious expression. Letting Beijing have the Games would, at best, send the wrong signal...
...instant jillionaires of the tech-stock IPO boom, pledging lavish gifts to charities and universities was a way of parading both their compassion and their clout. But with the tech bubble gone poof, many of those same promises are worth about as much as dotcom-stock shares. Cancel that new dorm...
FROM RICHES With 80% of San Francisco's dotcoms facing extinction, the streets are strewn with jobless techies. Gone are the benefits, the lavish perks and all that money. But also left behind are the endless workdays and job stress...