To lure potential donors to a place still associated with Khmer Rouge atrocities, Mr. Sanday pulls out all the stops: luxury dinner parties with dance performances inside Preah Khan are washed down with his own theories that "shake the foundations of current beliefs about Angkor".
By Mary Norris The New Yorker, August 1 , 1988P. 17 A talk story about a day trip up the Hudson River on the Dayliner, a ship owned by the Day Line, Inc. Brusie is a retired dackhand who is riding the Dayliner as often as he can this summer because these four trips may be her last - she is scheduled to be refurbished and available for chartered luxury dinner cruises.
To make friends and family even more jealous with your holiday travel tales, book a spot on a luxury Oahu dinner cruise for July Fourth -- you get a lavish seven-course dinner, live jazz music performances and a great view of the fireworks over Oahu.
It's an eloquent symbol for the tension between anxiety and luxury that makes "Dinner at Eight" something more than a vintage curiosity.
"Instead of medicine, the money went for luxury cars, extravagant dinners, vacations, parties and spa treatments," she said.
WASHINGTON — A nonprofit organization that Congress set up to help veterans start and expand small businesses was criticized in a recent Senate report for spending federal dollars on expensive dinners, luxury hotels, first-class travel and high salaries.
"How many dinners, luxury trips, business-class flights, media-training sessions, bouquets of flowers and intimate weekends have also been paid for?" Under the new system, money spent on security services, about 60percentt, would remain secret.
Berlin-Frankfurt "sprinters," leave at 6 each morning from each city, travel nonstop for 3 hours 40 minutes; the return trip is around 10 p.m. Luxuries like breakfast, dinner and daily newspapers are included.
It would be wrong to suggest that the new group of Democrats is following in the footsteps of Mr. Espada — after all, he left remarkably big footprints, pilfering money meant to help poor sick people and using it instead to buy things like lobster dinners, luxury cars and spa treatments for himself — but it would be dumb not to assume that they would get big helpings of pork.
"How many dinners, luxury, business-class flights, media-training sessions, bouquets of flowers and intimate weekends have also been paid for?" The only surveillance is an annual visit from the state auditors, who apparently look over a balance sheet at the prime minister's residence and then burn it.
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