Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost an average of $438,500 a day on the tables and machines. By June the daily drop reached $535,000, and security analysts estimate that the figure is now running as much as $700,000 a day, three times the revenues of either Caesars Palace or the MGM Grand, the biggest casinos in Las Vegas...
...most celebrated case to date involved the rip-off of Florida Power for as much as $8.5 million. Since that fraud was made public last August by the St. Petersburg Times, FBI agents have uncovered but not yet publicly identified other daisy chains, some apparently centering in Houston. Grand juries are said to be probing into these operations...
...apart, Korchnoi and Karpov both grew up in Leningrad, and both are products of the vast Soviet chess bureaucracy. The U.S.S.R. promotes the game as "a weapon of intellectual culture." A network of chess clubs has produced, at latest count, 4 million players, among them 608 masters and 38 grand masters...
...playing styles could scarcely be more different. Korchnoi belongs to the stormier tradition of such legendary grand masters as the impulsive Alexander Alekhine, who once resigned a game by hurling his king across the room...
...original Velvet Brown, the young and glorious Elizabeth Taylor ran her horse Pie to victory in England's Grand National. Now, Velvet is a high-strung middle-aged woman (Nanette Newman) who lives in sin with a blocked novelist known as John (Christopher Plummer). Tatum plays Sarah Velvet Brown, a recently orphaned niece who ar rives from Arizona to live with her aunt. Once she meets Pie's latest foal, history very slowly but surely repeats itself...