Prices for large, flat-panel TVs dropped anywhere from 38% to 75% in 2006, which means that sets that seemed extravagant a year ago are now just very expensive.
It remains to be seen, though, whether the people who thrilled to Reeve's exploits three decades ago will come out in sufficient numbers to reward Singer's retro gambit - especially one that clocks in at a somewhat extravagant two-and-a-half hours.
Balian depicted him as a fabulist, a liar who made up extravagant stories about being a famous film director, the heir to a South African fortune and a descendant of British royalty.
Either way, Madoff was running an extravagant fraud for a lot longer than a decade, and maybe for as long as twenty-five years.
And while most runway looks, like the pink feathered Badgley Mischka gown or Tracy Reese's sequined pants, may seem a little extravagant for the business casual set, Keane, Kolb and Albu agree, there's still a takeaway: silhouettes, textures, colors, tailoring details and ideas on how to accessorize.
Extravagant expenditures from which a reasonable person could expect only minimal benefits are not deductible.
What we've realized is that shipping water from Italy and then trucking it to our restaurant is a pretty extravagant and somewhat wasteful thing.
Until his extravagant 14-pints a day boast, William Hague was mostly remembered as the precocious, political-anorak and Thatcherite who addressed the party conference in his teens.
Meanwhile, Conor was horrible with money, and splurged on extravagant things like a Montblanc pen that cost twice as much as our monthly mortgage payment.
He was also reportedly extravagant in his lifestyle like a famous modern woman editor who was played by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada.
Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-Hung has a reputation for making extravagant purchases of art, jets, wine and jewelry.
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Back on the train and continuing north, at Prado station is the Iglesia Los Doce Apostoles (Church of the Twelve Apostles), and moments later just after Hospital station on the right is the Cementerio de San Pedro, containing a remarkable number of extravagant tombstones, sepulchral chapels and mausoleums.
Things that would seem unreasonably extravagant for yourself are nothing less than a necessity for your dog.
For the people who run NFL teams, getting to the Super Bowl becomes a matter of solving an extravagant jigsaw puzzle.
Despite post-war austerity, it was decided the event should be a fabulous, flamboyant, extravagant affair with all the pomp and pageantry they could muster.
If these criteria were considered to be a part of executive performance, bonuses would have been much lower and less extravagant in 2010, and total compensation for executives would not have made such a dramatic upward movement.
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Mexican president Felipe Calderon says plans by a notorious drug cartel for an extravagant party led to the killing of its leader.
It also took on the very popular meme in the personal finance world, that all bad personal finance events are a result of ill planning and extravagant spending.
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British and other shareholders of the Bank have launched an inquiry into confirmed reports of exorbitant expenditures on marbled offices, extravagant furnishings, salaries, staff parties, a private jet for Attali, etc.
Gallas, 32, and fellow centre-backs Sol Campbell and Mikael Silvestre are all out of contract in June and Gunners chairman Peter Hill-Wood described Gallas's demands for a new contract as "quite extravagant".
Instead, I'll say that it finds Mr. Tarantino perched improbably but securely on the top of a production that's wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.
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Discover Dixie just a sashay away with today's extravagant Escape to Cape May's The Southern Mansion.
And Mr Wilson's extravagant staging reinforces the opera's reputation as a money pit.
For comparison, Britain spends a frugal 7% and America an extravagant 13%.
The court said there was no reliable evidence that MPAC had advocated violence and that to describe the pamphlet presented by Mr Woolas' legal team as a 'hate' leaflet was 'extravagant'.
The huge and splendid bath provided a walk-in shower, twin basins set in a black marble vanity, electric lighting and extravagant amounts of hanging space.
China has announced a ban on radio and TV adverts which encourage extravagant gift-giving, saying they promote incorrect values, state media report.
Hundreds of devotees in extravagant costumes travel to the carnival on the Elvis Express, a special train service from Sydney, where the morning rush-hour is invigorated by white jumpsuits, aviator sunglasses and black wigs.
Of course, because we're a hopeless species, there's also been extravagant speculation that when James's run in Miami is done, his road may wind its way back to Cleveland for an emotional epilogue.
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