Word: grand
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...duly dispatched, to be knocked back into the bits and pieces of wood and glass from which it came and shipped off by container-arriving as one big jigsaw puzzle. The transportation and reassembly may cost as much as the object itself. But, insists Dennis Gibbons of Grand American Fare, "you couldn't build a paneled room for the price of these pieces. You can't get this stuff any more...
...coverage in favor of another leasing company, arranged for the electronic bugging of a Manhattan meeting between Nottage and representatives of the Chemical Bank. Unluckily for Christopher, the expert he hired to do the job was an FBI informer. Christopher was indicted in 1976 by a federal grand jury in Manhattan and wound up pleading guilty to illegal electronic eavesdropping. He was fined $10,000 and put on probation for two years; he closed his company and sold his leasing portfolio to Bank of America...
...getting a woman who somewhere along the line misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract, in the meliorative principle, in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor...
...Grand Rapids...
...newsletters that he had honored it with one of his monthly "Golden Fleece Awards." Hutchinson sued him for $8 million in damages for libel. Another case involved a man named Ilya Wolston, a former State Department interpreter, who had been cited for contempt for refusing to appear before a grand jury investigating Soviet intelligence in 1958. He later cooperated, and was never indicted for espionage. When in 1974 Wolston was listed in a book called KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Agents as "among Soviet agents identified in the U.S.," Wolston sued the book's author, John Barren...