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• Aso claims the handout - worth 2 trillion yen ($20.4 billion), or about 12,000 yen ($100) per person - will spur spending, but Ozawa and even much of the public that would stand to profit oppose it as a lavish waste of money at a time when Japan needs to more seriously address bigger economic issues such as unemployment and benefits for the growing legions of temporary workers. —  News On Japan
• The advertising is lavish, and the underlying principle of it is, that the prospective purchaser wishes a complete description of the wares. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• But lavish are the colours in which he describes the end, as of the evening, eloquent for a time with the sumptuous splendour of sunset, but overtaken at last by the devouring darkness which sweeps away all its brilliance into night In this beginning and this ending of his poem there lies hidden that message of the forest which found its voice in the poet's words. —  Creative Unity
• I will not undertake to make the promises which it is now the fashion of candidates to lavish, and which I cannot regard as serious.' —  France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
• For it was in the noble arts of oratory that nature had been most lavish, and in them he rose to be consummate. —  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859

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