Word: lavishness
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...constitutionally independent Bundesbank to implement a "decisive relaxation of credit restrictions." That approach failed to win Blessing's blessing. Fearful that an easing of monetary restraints alone would lead to increased inflation, Blessing insisted that West Germany's federal, state and municipal governments curb their often lavish spending. Otherwise, he said, the country will wind up with "the same stop-and-go policy that has worked so badly in England...
...What a wonderful cover story on the delightful Julia Child [Nov. 25]. We are great fans, even though my strictly noncooking husband is one of those men you so aptly describe, who never goes to the kitchen "for anything but ice cubes." Her lavish use of butter, cream, wine, etc., confirms my theory that to create a really fine meal, the cook should ignore those recipes labeled "nonfattening" or "economical...
...more than seven months, C.D. men controlled angry Negro pickets around Philadelphia's Girard College, a lavish school for white orphans only. While the pickets incessantly yowled...
...each year only to be mothballed in the employer-contractors' private skill banks, as elements in "capabilities" to be asserted in possible or problematical future competitions for new public business. Meanwhile, the eager, brilliant young men gradually sink into time-serving desuetude, their skills and motivation deteriorating, their lavish salaries charged to taxpayer-supported projects of questionable usefulness in which they play no real part...
...Long Plan: it makes no provisions for financing of primary campaigns, which leaves open the possibility that candidates will already be deeply in debt to big contributors before the major campaign begins. It fails to prohibit the parties from going right ahead and soliciting private contributions to lavish on top of the public funds. And it offers no alternative financing plan in the event that sufficient taxpayers fail by intent or plain indifference to approve the tax diversion on their income tax forms...