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I had promised them this trip to the Bahamas resort called Atlantis, an extravagance on our budget, as compensation for our one summer vacation on Long Island, 10 days of dreary skies and autumnal winds in Montauk.

With Paris in the throes of couture, fashion fanatics expect extravagance on and off the runways.

Signs of wealth and extravagance on Grand Cayman are difficult to miss.

BARBARA IRELAND Cayman Islands Signs of wealth and extravagance on Grand Cayman are difficult to miss.

The whole place cries for color and a certain extravagance on the part of its public — and what happens?

It's the scene known for setting a breathtaking standard of extravagance on the stage that was only amplified in the 1964 screen version, and for inflating a huge balloon of pomposity that is gloriously punctured by the musical theater's most beloved societal interloper, Eliza Doolittle.

Certainly there has been an extravagance of emphasis on Rodrigo's central masterpiece, the Concierto de Aranjuez, but it remains his enduring monument in an age when classical music has tended to dip in popularity.

But there must have been many times when the Portuguese people cursed all that cash going into sky-boxes for football fans, while civil servants marched through the streets in protest at their pay freeze.The economy is now at least expanding again, but the extravagance of spending on Euro 2004 may seem even more marked when the tournament is over.

PAGE C5 SIN CITY FEELS THE PINCH Las Vegas is a town that depends on the extravagance of gamblers and tourists, so the moderation brought on by tough economic times has many in the city feeling jittery.

Prosperity and fiscal caution had resulted in the accumulation of huge surpluses by the 1580s, both in the capital and in many provinces, but thereafter the Sino-Japanese war in Chosŏn, unprecedented extravagances on the part of the long-lived Wanli emperor, and defense against domestic rebels and the Manchu bankrupted both the central government and the imperial household.

It's just easier for mom and dad to cut out the extravagances on each other than to exacerbate a tight-fisted Christmas with sulking kids.