Word: lavishness
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...mine the world's biggest source of industrial diamonds. After independence came in 1960, the Belgians put their weight behind an eccentric Baluba chief named Albert Kalonji, and went right on mining diamonds while the Congolese central government floundered helplessly in Leopoldville. Wallowing in Forminiere's lavish tax and dividend payments, the bearded Kalonji donned a diamond-studded crown and leopard apron, found himself a scepter, and dubbed himself Kasai's King Albert...
Kalonji's escape was hard to swallow, but the central government had made its point with the people who count-the Belgian diamond operators. Hurriedly, their chief flew to Leopoldville from Brussels, agreed henceforth to hand over the diamond operation's lavish cash benefits to Adoula's treasury...
...lured millions of Europeans into cars designed above all for economy, Europe's automakers are now copying Detroit in an effort to get their customers to trade up to more expensive cars. The bait is a whole new line of small cars that feature such attractions as more lavish interiors, increased acceleration and crisper styling, and cost $200 to $300 more than economy models...
...output was so great that in a few years he was able to buy a small country estate at Melikhovo, where he planted a cherry orchard and began, as he put it, to "squeeze the last drop of slave out" of himself. At Melikhovo, Chekhov was a lavish host, dressed up as a hussar to amuse his guests, flirted with his sister's pretty friend "Lika" Mizinova...
...youngsters are juniors and seniors at Roman Catholic St. Thomas High School in mill-town Braddock near Pittsburgh. But every morning at 7 they board a public school bus and ride 13 miles to tax-supported Forbes Trail Area Technical School in Monroeville. For three hours at Forbes, a lavish technical citadel serving 15 other Allegheny County schools on a part-time basis, the Catholic kids study such nonreligious matters as computer programming and chemical technology. Then they ride a bus to St. Thomas High for an afternoon of religion, social studies and English in a "God-centered" climate...