Word: trumps
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Nevertheless, people who have known Summers, especially at his time in the Treasury Department, stress that while he uses economic principles to help set priorities, they do not trump other social values...
However, there is one factor that has gotten buried somewhat in the discussion of playoff expansion-money. Another first round series and another game in Lake Placid means more revenue for a conference that some have said are struggling. How much this factor has to trump competitive interests will be a judgment reserved for when the conference decides to release some data on its financial health. Certainly, the ECAC needs every possible advantage as it falls further behind the other three major D-I conferences...
...committee met as a whole every other weekend, shuttling back and forth between places like Harper's law firm and Houghton's Corning offices in the Trump Towers in New York, and locations in Cambridge, usually Loeb House or the Inn at Harvard...
...unspoken deal with the wealthy: we don't begrudge them their money too much as long as they blow some of it on the sort of ludicrous, solid-gold-birdbath fantasies that get us through our bitter little lives. (Why else would we put up with Donald Trump?) By this standard, music stars, who spend their fresh-minted cash like a drunk 12-year-old would, are the best rich folk of all, and Cribs (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), the music network's cult-hit home-tour show, is their perfect tribute. Invading the toy-filled pads of former stars...
...removed from the sawdusty realm of Bob Vila. But the shows have helped fast-growing HGTV expand beyond its swatch-wielding base. "It's informational voyeurism," Jablin says, maintaining that the average homesteader can still take away useful tips from Joy Philbin interviewing Ivana Trump in her "cozy," 10,000-sq.-ft. Palm Beach house on At Home with... ("Set yourself a budget!" Ivana advises.) "Though," he adds, "certainly people also watch for the catty appeal of saying, 'Eh, she bought that?'" Ivana's Transylvanian-castle foyer, complete with an actual medieval crest, springs to mind...