Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This musical is a cross between a Dionysian revel and an old-fashioned revival meeting. The religion that Hair preaches, and often screeches, is flower power, pot and protest. Its music is pop-rock, and its dialogue is mostly graffiti. Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty. The play itself borders on license by presenting a scene in which half a dozen members of the cast, male and female, face the audience in the nude. This tableau is such a dimly lit still life that it will leave most playgoers yawning...
...first incorrect impression that the government conveyed was that a bevy of indictments were just around the corner. In fact, they are still tricking in; the most recent indictment, in Minnesota last week, was the first in more than four months. Turnage was the first to make lavish predictions about the prosecution rate, but only slightly less optimistic claims were being made more recently by other officials that massive indictments were on the way. Everyone involved in the implementation of registration for the draft knew that no such thing was going to happen. Such bald exaggerations may have been intended...
...Force to maintain a fleet of 17 planes for official Government travel. On these military transports, spouses can travel free when space is available. Other abuses, says Congress Watch, include taking far more members and staff than are necessary to accomplish the stated purpose of a trip, lavish use of "food and refreshment" money supplied by military escorts and embassy personnel to the delegations, and excessive travel by lame-duck members...
...country's network of company-and state-backed insurance programs assures treatment to virtually everyone; wage earners contribute as little as $5.20 a month to plans that provide lavish benefits. Critics complain that patients overuse the system for such woes as hangovers and general fatigue. Another factor that runs up the costs to the state is the high salaries of doctors, supplemented by their income from filling out prescriptions...
...economy gradually got out of control. Government spending became too lavish. Subway systems under construction in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, which have absorbed $2.1 billion so far, are the most expensive per mile in the world. Runaway deficits led to more and more foreign borrowing and fueled relentless inflation, which already averaged 20% a year in the early 1970s. When the global energy crisis hit in 1973, Brazil was overextended and vulnerable. Over the next six years, the country had to pay $35 billion, all of it borrowed, for oil imports...