Word: lavishness
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...proliferation of propositions on the California ballot, meant to be the ultimate in democratic expression, has been perverted into a financial battle between opposing groups. With the aid of high-powered public relations firms and lavish use of broadcasting, wealth often wins. One illustration is the defeat last June of a controversial proposition that would have restricted industry from polluting the air. Such firms as Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, Gulf Oil, Humble Oil & Refining, Shell Oil, Dow Chemical and Pacific Gas & Electric helped assemble a kitty of $1.4 million. This overwhelmed the $186,510 spent by a committee called...
...have trouble in the Middle East or Thailand, we'll need those ships again." The case for building a "bridge of ships" to foreign trouble spots is questionable at best; the number of troops ferried to Viet Nam by ship, for example, was negligible. Moreover, the lavish subsidies violate the Nixon Administration's free-trade philosophy, which generally holds that goods and services should be supplied to the world by the countries that can produce them most economically and efficiently. Shipbuilders contend that the federal assistance will eventually make U.S. firms competitive in selling some kinds of vessels...
...average year, the San Francisco Opera company settles for a dozen shows, including at least three exciting and lavish new productions. That way it has an annual deficit of $1 million. This 50th-anniversary year will be different. In addition to two complete presentations of his two-year-old "Ring" cycle, he will offer a completely new Tosca and a new L'Africaine, as well as the American première of the Von Einem/Dürrenmatt The Visit of the Old Lady...
...balmy afternoon last week, four tourists from Miami finished a round of golf at the Fountain Valley course, a lavish facility on the northwest coast owned by Laurance and David Rockefeller. As the tourists stood at the outdoor bar, they were startled to see half a dozen men-all wearing military fatigues and masks-burst from a nearby hedge. Suddenly the masked men opened fire with automatic rifles, spraying bullets crazily at everyone in sight. In moments the four Miami tourists were dead and so were three club employees. A fourth, Groundskeeper John Gulliver, 23, moaned again and again...
...delegates were merely actors in the unsuspenseful drams. Three thousand Young Voters for the President played a crucial supporting role. The powerful elite which steers the Republican Party spent four days directing producing and orchestrating the gala event--gala, this is, if the proper credentials and invitations to lavish afterhours parties were obtainable...