The cost of even very skilled labour was low compared to that of the materials, and in the absence of any reliable way of either depositing or investing money, it was turned into lavish objects, in the knowledge that it might well need to be sold or melted down to finance some future project.
If this year's budget is tight, he can promise lavish pensions, secure in the knowledge that the bill will come due only in the distant future.
And as you're doing lengths of the luxury lap pool, you can be content in the knowledge that the lavish facilities were used to inflate the project's total building cost, and thus reduce the developer's affordable housing requirements – as recently exposed in the project's viability assessment.
Ms. Spiotta lavishes on Nik all her eclectic, deeply felt knowledge of music and pop culture.
In the latest tome on the advent of the global "knowledge economy" (a book singled out for lavish praise by Tony Blair), the author, a journalist and think-tanker, Charles Leadbeater, writes:I do not work for a company or a university.
It shows how in just four years an influential former senator was able to make $5 million and live a lavish lifestyle by dint of his name, connections and knowledge of the town's inner workings.
Brom also worked as a commercial cook so you can expect a lavish breakfast spread, and both of them are fountains of knowledge on Sydney and its surrounds.
John Leonard, a widely influential and enduringly visible cultural critic known for the breadth of his knowledge, the depth of his inquiries and the lavish passion of his prose, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
His aides had been pressing for a more lavish welcome than Mr Bush was prepared to give.All this exposure, however, is not adding much to the sum of knowledge about Mr Hu himself.
OF FINANCE about Wall Street analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb... Writer describes a visit Taleb made to the lavish estate of money manager Victor Niederhoffer... Niederhoffer had a huge and eclectic library and a seemingly insatiable desire for knowledge.
