Word: lavishness
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Indoors Is Unnerving Too. The most impressive of POW's ten major rein forced concrete buildings is the six-story Buckner, one of the most lavish edi fices ever built by the Army Engineers...
...year, started a one-man campaign against corruption and Communist influence within the company. He stopped all hiring (8,000 new employees were added during the two preceding years), looked into shady dealings of Petrobras executives, twice blocked strikes approved by a Petrobras director, and cracked down sharply on lavish publicity spending. Silva took his evidence to Brazil's President Joao Goulart. When word leaked out, a newspaper article appeared with statements accusing the general himself of engineering a "major underhanded deal" involving the purchase of $200 million worth of oil from "a large petroleum company"-later identified...
...explosion of brilliance, studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost of the vast pile has soared from an original estimate of $2,500,000 to a whopping $20 million...
...said nothing at all about Russia's most important squabble-the one with Communist China. But this was surely a topic of conversation when Khrushchev, bundled up in a fur hat and fur-trimmed coat, suddenly arrived for a visit with Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in a lavish hunting lodge 125 miles north of Warsaw-the same frigid site where Nikita met Gomulka a year ago for discussion of Communist problems and some hunting in the nearby woods...
...before landing. Though Egyptian authorities provided an enthusiastic crowd to greet the Chinese Premier, the official welcome was somewhat restrained. President Nasser-in Tunisia to attend ceremonies marking France's withdrawal from the Bizerte naval base when Chou arrived-got back to Cairo in time to give a lavish banquet at Abdin Palace. He presented Red China's premier with Egypt's highest decoration-the Collar of the Nile; in return, Chou rose to pledge an association between their two countries as enduring as "the ever-flowing Nile and Yellow Rivers...