Word: posh
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...17th-century aristocrat, seven sisters of Greek mythology and still-undecided Greek letters will be the symbols of these new social domains, and their images will soon be scrawled on invitations slipped under doors across campus. One “society” promises to usher recruits into posh V.I.P. rooms; another looks to cultivate a homey atmosphere with popcorn and old movies. In a year when male final clubs have tempered their festive image, the number of female social clubs will soon equal the number of male final clubs. It’s a new social equation...
...April 30, General Motors Corp. Chairman John Smith stood on a stage in the posh ballroom of the Seoul Hilton Hotel, waiting to announce a long-sought deal to acquire South Korea's bankrupt Daewoo Motor Co. GM, the biggest automaker in the world, planned to celebrate in style: a signing ceremony with 150 guests, a screening of a specially made video called Infinite Possibilities, and a champagne reception for such dignitaries as the U.S. ambassador to Korea. But before the festivities could begin, the doors to the ballroom burst open and in rushed 70 angry members of the Daewoo...
...neighbors in the posh Tuscan resort of Forte dei Marmi, Tokhtakhounov is a courteous, quiet gent often surrounded by gorgeous cars and fast women. To the Italian finance police and the American FBI, which have been tailing him for at least a year, he is a suspect in drug dealing, arms trafficking and money laundering--an international sleaze king with influential friends among Russian celebrities and Kremlin politicos...
...have vanished into Karachi, the megacity of 12 million on the Arabian Sea. Diplomats say that the Qaeda fugitives who reached Karachi late last year "were not living in slum areas" but preferred high-rent districts where money buys high-walled privacy. Some were believed to have hidden in posh safe houses for much of the winter. But since then, they have scattered again. Says a senior Pakistani official: "They don't like to keep in one place. They're in lower-class neighborhoods, middle class, everywhere." Karachi authorities say that raids of militants' hideouts and homes in recent weeks...
...there is surely a place for companies in taking research and making it benefit people, isn’t there? At the posh Loeb House dinner held on the occasion of the dedication of the new Bauer Center for Genomics this March, Summers said “If ideas are to find expressions and cures to diseases, it is surely a major role for collaborations, closely defined, closely regulated; to be sure, collaborations with the private sector.” Summers has yet to clearly say what definitions and regulations he’s talking about, or how the Silicon...