Word: gran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...txtin iz messin/mi headn'me englis/try2rite essays/they all come out txtis. gran not plsed w/letters/shes getn/swears i wrote better b4 comin2uni. &she's african...
...third Summit of the Americas, which begins in Quebec City on April 20 - this Summit of "La Gran Familia" of the Americas - has special significance. It is the first meeting of the heads of state and government of the region's democracies in the new millennium and thus an auspicious occasion to reflect on our shared accomplishments and to renew our shared resolve to meet the challenges of the future...
...speak often of the Americas as una gran familia, a great family. We are, after all, related through our experiences in this hemisphere, by our painstaking struggle to build shared institutions and by our shared vision of a prosperous and democratic future. Like members of any family, the peoples and countries of the hemisphere face challenges that will surely test us. And like members of a true family, it is the depth of our commitment to common values and purposes that gives us strength and makes it possible for us to go forward and to develop and prosper together...
...Repeated over the years, the combination of drought, human despoiling and fire can transform wet tropical forest into permanent savanna. So argues Bruce Nelson, an ecologist who has worked since 1979 with inpa, the Brazilian institute for the study of the Amazon. Nelson believes pre-Columbian Indians created the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, a 75,000-sq-km area of veld stretching across the southeast corner of the country, by repeated burning of the forest. As evidence, he points out that unlike neighboring natural grasslands, the Gran Sabana lacks fire-tolerant tree species. In other words, forests burned down hundreds...
...which consumes 80% of Mexico's tequila shipments abroad. "A few people who regularly went to Mexico for these small specialty tequilas started importing them for sale," says Christopher Palmer, publisher of the online magazine Tequila Fancy. International customers were soon savoring formerly inaccessible brands like Centinela, Lapiz and Gran Centenario. A string of new multinational players in the market also helped. Over the past five years, giants like Brown-Forman and Seagram (Tequila Don Julio) and powerhouses Diageo (Cuervo's distributor) and Allied Domecq (Sauza's) have bought tequila distilleries in Mexico or gone into partnerships there in order...