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A lavish renovation of the Bolshoi theatre suffered epic delays and went wildly over-budget.A third school focuses on sex.

The five-story town house had been completely gutted and rebuilt in a lavish renovation, according to Nikki E. Field, a senior vice president with Sotheby's Realty International, who represented the seller.

At 740 Park Avenue, new owners who just paid $37 million for the 34-room penthouse once owned by Saul P. Steinberg are embarking on a lavish renovation that could take years.

He already owned a historic bank building on Warren Street; after a lavish renovation and a little stenciling on its mint-green facade ("Boulangerie, Bar, Patisserie") it now looks very French indeed — and the carriage house behind it makes a fine home for the massive oven he bought from a Percheron farmer and had shipped in a container to the United States.

Russian subsidies have also paid for the construction of a modern sports complex with a swimming pool, the lavish renovation of Soviet-era apartment blocks and the world's only brewery in the high Arctic, which produces a brew called Red Bear for the mine canteen.

And the business industry's pain only deepened on Monday, when ABC News reported that JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in federal bailout money, was buying two luxury Gulfstream G650 jets for about $60 million each, and planned an $18 million "lavish renovation" of its corporate jet hangar.

In the Bronx, Mr. Kerik had put his apartment up for sale at an asking price boosted by lavish renovations paid for by a contractor.

The Swiss prosecutors say Mr. Borodin, 54, received tens of millions of dollars in payments in return for awarding contracts to two Swiss companies to undertake lavish renovations at the Kremlin and other government properties.

Swiss prosecutors say he had received tens of millions of dollars in payments in return for awarding contracts to two Swiss companies to undertake lavish renovations at the Kremlin and other government properties.

But in a village where lavish renovations have put a polish on scores of 19th-century houses in recent years, the Bulova plant stands an ugly contradiction, its gutters dangling and its windows broken.

BERLIN — Pope Francis, who has made humility and modesty his hallmarks, sent a swift and clear message to Roman Catholics around the world on Wednesday, suspending a German bishop accused of spending millions on lavish renovations to his residence and forcing the chief administrator of the bishop's diocese into early retirement.