Galina was spoiled by a father who himself had a taste for extravagance (he had a huge collection of foreign cars).
Russian billionaires, who gained a reputation for unbridled extravagance in recent years, have been even harder hit.
He scrapped television advertising, always an extravagance for a machinery manufacturer.
For all his visual extravagance, he remains surprisingly unaffected.
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But older Greek women, in particular, do quietly patronise the Chinese, often getting clothes for daughters and granddaughters whose extravagance risks busting the family budget.
For what they perceive as extravagance is always less costly in lives and treasure than the long drawn-out wars it deters altogether or shortens with quick victories.
The military has issued stricter spending rules to curb waste and extravagance and calls for priority spending on preparations for battle, high-tech weaponry and training, according to Xinhua.
The movie seems clean and steady, a corrective to the lushness and extravagance that, for better or worse, has come to be seen as the house style of Chinese cinema.
Ms Boxer has made her career out of high dudgeon, raging about everything from Pentagon extravagance to the proper temperature for freezing chickens.
It quoted a Sarft official as saying that the move was in response to repeated calls by the authorities for people to practise thrift and shun extravagance and waste.
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