Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cadillacs purred down clean streets kept orderly by serried ranks of trusted policemen. The skyline, crowned by the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building, was the most imposing man-made sight in the world, and at night it glowed with the fires of 2 million aspirations. Visitors to Grand Central Station, where the trains were out of sight and the zodiac was on the ceiling, could get information on any subject whatsoever -- and they did, 167,000 times a year. The glorious profligacy of the place was astounding: "Why," remarked one astonished observer, "the garbage thrown away in this city...
PHOENIX, Ariz.--Phoenix Suns players James Edwards, Jay Humphries and Grant Gondrezick and two former players were indicted by a county grand jury investigating cocaine trafficking, authorities said yesterday...
Dwight Evans's sixth-inning grand slam and the overpowering relief pitching of Wes Gardner carried the Boston Red Sox to a 5-4 victory over the Texas Rangers yesterday, extending the Rangers's losing streak to six games...
...indication of just how strong a crew he feels he has. He doesn't take teams he doesn't think can win, and the heavies hadn't made the trip in three years. That hiatus includes the 1985 Crimson, a crew which eventually won the national championship and the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in England...
...grand diplomatic breakthroughs were achieved. But Thatcher, who is ! expected to call elections sometime this year, certainly bolstered her stature among voters at home -- and among Britain's allies on the Continent. Indeed, she had prepped for the trip by meeting with key West European leaders, and she was anxious to register their measured and skeptical reaction to Gorbachev's proposal for withdrawing all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces from Europe...