Word: lavishness
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...colder climate and pint-sized landholdings, produce inefficiently and expensively. The French-and in this specific case they are on the side of the angels-have long insisted on a low common price. The Germans, for internal political reasons, argue for a higher price reflecting their higher costs and lavish support of German farmers. Still, the ministers have set an optimistic July 1966 deadline for agreement on the remaining unsettled prices of sugar, rice, beef and milk...
...chuckholes in the streets, beneath which Tripoli is installing its first modern sewer system. New hotels and apartment houses are sprouting like desert flowers; three new hotels worth $10 million will soon be started in Tripoli alone. A small upper-middle class has grown enormously wealthy, built hundreds of lavish villas in the fashion able Tripoli suburb of Georgimpopoli...
...critics threw superlatives at his fingers. During World War II, he moved his family to Hollywood, bought a rambling 15-room mansion next door to Ingrid Bergman and soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo with Greer Garson on maracas, Danny Kaye...
...domestic compact market, almost became king of the road. Just to meet the demand and get the car into customers' hands, A.M.C. President George Romney-now Governor of Michigan-permitted archaic and costly work practices to continue. A.M.C. executives now complain, with hindsight, that Romney paid lavish dividends to stockholders and perhaps too conscientiously used earnings to take the company completely out of debt. Antiquated multilevel plants in Kenosha, Wis., and Milwaukee were not replaced...
...this wage amounts to about $6200 a year, which is not exactly a lavish sum on which to bring up a family in New York City. It is, in fact, below the level of "modest but adequate" budget for a family of four set by the Labor Department. Persons who are worried about the impediments to social mobility in this country ought to be able to see that it is not all that easy for a man with a $6200 income to send several children to college. Just because there are other people who ought to be making more money...