Word: lavishness
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...Lavish Living. After its start at selling to G.I.s, Cornfeld's Investors Overseas soon spread out to sell to Europeans, has now expanded globally into more than 100 nations. Sales doubled annually from the start, but Investors Overseas really hit its stride in 1962 after Cornfeld launched what he calls the Fund of Funds, which is composed entirely of shares in 16 other mutual funds and management companies. By reinvesting its profits ($1,600,000 last year), Investors Overseas has expanded far beyond mutual funds. It has acquired two life-insurance companies with policies of more than $200 million...
...born, Brooklyn-reared Bernie Cornfeld, a mild-mannered bachelor of 37 who does not look as if he would ever talk back to his boss. He drives a Lancia Flaminia convertible, sails a 42-ft. Corsair, owns a ski lodge and a castle in France and lives in a lavish villa in suburban Geneva with two Great Danes and a Chinese houseman. He decorates his penthouse office with red silk Empire furnishings and swarms of attractive, multilingual secretaries, trains and entertains his worldwide force of 2,000 salesmen with everything from art lectures to cocktail parties in a 50-room...
...lections municipales, Charles de Gaulle decided to think grand. Ordered onto the hustings were no fewer than 16 of his Cabinet officers, including Premier Georges Pompidou, a onetime banker and literary critic who had never run for anything in his life. Everywhere the invading Gaullist commandos were given lavish support by the regional stations of the government-controlled radio and television...
...London Observer Critic Nigel Gosling, who had thought the black and white reproduction, first released by the National Gallery, suggested "something intellectual and contrived" about the painting, took it all back when he examined it in color. "Over every inch of the canvas the colors are laid on as lavish and delicate as the feathers on a tropical bird...
...three special issues of "the oldest college daily" contained helpful hints on careers in advertising, insurance, and Wall Street. In addition to lavish advertising displays, included were such articles as "Insurance is Explosive as Ever," by a 70-year-old specialist: "Investment Banking: Bastion of Free World," by a stock broker; and "Schweppes in America: A Personal approach," by Commander Edward Whitchead...