And as always there have been winners as well as losers over the past year; if you backed the right shares, you will still be able to afford a relatively lavish end-of-year celebration.
One sign: Traditionally lavish end-of-the-year parties thrown by powerful state-owned companies, and thus paid for from the public purse, have been canceled in large numbers, causing great satisfaction among ordinary people as high-end restaurants in Beijing are suddenly available for traditional New Year family dinners.
American Medicare has shorter waits than Canadian Medicare (yes, that's what they call their system) because it has more lavish funding — end of story.
It would be impossible in two hours and eleven minutes to cover the entire lives of the twins from war-time childhood, army desertion and boxing success through the years of their violent sway in east London – club ownership, long firm frauds, murders and Old Bailey trial – and on to their declining years in Parkhurst and Broadmoor and their lavish East End funerals.
The lavish West End production, directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes, is on at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Wall Street's lavish year-end bonuses, roughly $12 billion last year, accounted for about 7percentt of all the wages paid in the city, according to the industry association.
They are connecting the dots between the lavish high-end tax cuts of the past decade and today's serious problems — including widening inequality and mounting deficits — and demanding change.
Friday night's black-tie celebration, which started with dinner in the palace's lavish ballroom, ended with dancing into the small hours while Prince Harry gave his best man's speech.
The artists tool around in luxury through Europe's lavish, high-end touristic landscape, staying in fancy hotels and plush villas on someone else's dime, with no prying boss or insistent producer or determined director on hand to oversee the work.
You lavished no end of tape on them, so that you would know if anyone tampered with them.
