Does Venezuela believe that, like Ethiopia, some of its holdings are actually gold-plated steel?
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Banks will still be wary of extending credit to anyone but the most gold-plated borrowers.
The authorities in Honduras have seized a gold-plated, jewel-encrusted AK-47 assault rifle, complete with two silver magazines.
Police motorbikes then escorted a gold-plated coffin along the highway in Los Angeles carrying the singer's body.
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The result was that people using cash or no-reward cards ended up subsidizing those with gold-plated plastic.
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With such gold-plated backing, the Americans assumed that China's government-owned national and regional airlines would buy their planes.
Another Hollywood Hunk, Tom Cruise, has nothing to show for his millions either--at least in terms of gold-plated statuettes.
Lord Hutton rejected the frequently made claim that public sector pensions are gold-plated.
Some would have to give up the company's gold-plated healthcare and pension benefits.
At 32, he has a gold-plated resume with degrees from Yale and Harvard.
The Fisherman's Ring bestowed upon him as an emblem of his authority was gold-plated silver, rather than the traditional solid gold.
And rapper producer Pharrell Williams proved even mundane tasks like e-mail could be blinged out when he showed off his gold-plated BlackBerry.
They took the form of phonograph records: 12-inch gold-plated copper disks, engraved with directions to build a device that could play them.
Question is, have Giuliani's moneymaking efforts buffed or tarnished the gold-plated name?
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Honduran authorities said the gold-plated rifle had an engraving associated with the Malverde drug gang - which is allegedly connected to Mexico's Zetas cartel.
Like all of the evening's winners, his prize came in the form of a gold-plated Shure microphone - commonly known as the "Elvis microphone".
The glittering burial hoard from Mycenae gold cups, jewellery, bronze swords with gold-plated hilts and hundreds of ornaments is still a crowd-puller at the Athens archaeological museum.
Last season, the payroll of the gold-plated New York Yankees was three times that of the Montreal Expos, the church mice of the major league.
And the gold-plated plumbing in their sailboats makes good gossip fodder.
GE's gold-plated credit rating lets Neal borrow money at 3% to 5% interest and lend it out at rates of 10% to 12%, on average.
We are not and probably will never be preferred, gold-plated customers.
It is made of gold-plated silver, but the jewels were fakes, with the stones around the bottom rim made from coloured glass and a foil backing.
The art installation is a portable laboratory made of 24-karat gold-plated hardware, a glass bioreactor and the bacteria, a combination that produces gold in front of an audience.
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But the average age of Ford s workforce is about five years younger than GM s, which means Ford will have to shell out more money to convince workers to give up their high salaries and gold-plated benefits.
The truth is that these employees have done well so far and they will not find much sympathy when the public find out that they earn large wages and enjoy gold-plated pensions denied to so many Scots.
When nearly 30 years ago Dr. Jacob Fraden invented an ear thermometer working on this second principle, the infrared light sensor was so large that he needed a narrow gold-plated reflective tube to channel the light from the ear drum to the sensor.
Lord Hutton's review rejected any suggestion that public sector pensions were "gold-plated", but said that in order to make them affordable for the future, millions of employees should work longer, receive less and have their pensions linked to career average earnings, rather than final salaries.
One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" on his yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.
In my new novel "Tiger Rag, " Charles "Buddy" Bolden (a fictionalized version of the jazz pioneer) plays the trumpet's precursor, the cornet, which I describe on page two: the carefully calibrated valves, the mouthpiece, the bell triple-silver-plated on the outside, gold-plated on the inside, the finger pieces of inlaid pearl.
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