Word: pampered
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...stream running through its marble counter. The $100 million makeover of Sony's Culver City studio lot included pillars adorned with elaborate murals. A fleet of corporate jets sat in the hangar, and fresh cut flowers were delivered daily to executives. The corporate culture seemed to say that to pamper is to prosper...
...riches, are a small but growing elite numbering some 300,000 (a class of notables whom 13% of the country, according to a survey conducted by Moscow News, would like to see thrown in prison). These are the post-Soviet sybarites who patronize Moscow's Volvo and Mercedes dealerships, pamper themselves with Estee Lauder "exclusive skin-care consultations" and blithely plunk down the equivalent of an average worker's monthly pay for French champagne and Danish liqueur candies at the gilded- mirror displays in Yeliseyevsky Gatronom, the grande dame of Moscow supermarkets...
...haircut while planes full of $20 haircut people circle overhead; nor would a leftist contemplate selling the President's favors at $15,000 a plate fund raisers. Such behaviors belong way over on the right, along with supply-side economics, capital-gains tax reductions and other efforts to pamper the pate-eating classes...
...first illusion was that Clinton was New Democrat, a moderate unafraid to challenge liberal interests and unwilling to coddle criminals or pamper the poor. During the campaign, Clinton demonstrated his independence by insulting Jesse Jackson, executing Arkansas convicts and catering to the "forgotten middle class" while ignoring the poor...
...want to enjoy barbecues with their families are heavily outnumbered by the Fuyuhikos, named after a character in a TV drama who was raised by his mother to excel at school and work but never to do anything else for himself and who expects his wife to pamper him the same way. Young women are putting off marrying the Fuyuhikos as long as they can. Older women who married Fuyuhiko types decades ago sometimes express their resentment at the bitter end: they insist that they be buried in individual graves rather than alongside their husband, a practice called shigo rikon...