Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistake," he declared at a news conference last week. It was "dumb" and "unforgivable," he said, for Chrysler to have allowed employees to test-drive some of the company's new autos with their odometers disconnected and later sell the cars as new. That practice led to a grand-jury indictment against the company and two of its executives two weeks ago. Chrysler had vigorously defended its actions as normal quality-testing procedures in the industry, but amid a storm of adverse publicity, Iacocca decided that the smart thing to do was to make amends...
...Harvard men's heavyweight crew failed to reach the finals of the 148th Henley Regatta-on-Thames Saturday, falling to the Ridley Boat Club from Canada by three-quarters of a length in the first round of the Grand Challenge Cup for eights...
Harvard qualified for Henley three weeks ago by winning the national collegiate championship, its third in five years but first since 1985, when the Crimson crew went on to capture the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley...
...could go on, but the point is that the civil docket still makes room for more than whiplash, malpractice, what have you, still accommodates the citizen who has nothing grander to gain than the Republic's concession that he was right and it was wrong, which is pretty grand. In Louisiana, a Vietnamese schoolgirl, no bigger than a pencil sharpened to a nub, had no larger scheme than to publish a newspaper for the "out crowd" at her Louisiana high school, but she ran afoul of her principal nonetheless. In California, a black entrepreneur who sports a thick thatch...
...call to the estranged wife of his friend and political colleague Julian Bond, cautioning her about allegations of cocaine use she was making to the police. Those charges implicated Bond, Young and other prominent Atlantans. (She later retracted the charges, which were denied by both Young and Bond.) A grand jury took up the case...