Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history's calendar, last week had been circled in advance. It was set aside, blocked out ahead of time for a grand show involving two men who wished to immortalize themselves through a feat of statesmanship...
Seldom are glory and dread quite so thoroughly mingled for so many. And seldom is history played out on such a grand scale, minute by minute, before such an enormous global audience. Though the drama had been building all week, the countdown began early Saturday morning, after Li announced in a televised speech that "we must end the turmoil swiftly" and ordered troops into the city. While Li's raspy voice echoed from Tiananmen Square's loudspeakers, sirens wailed and blue lights flashed as an ambulance arrived to take away yet another weakened hunger striker. A full moon, shrouded...
...Enterprises, spent two days rummaging through files and carted off more than a million documents, the company's executives were shaken but not surprised. They quickly concluded that their rivals at Los Angeles-based jeansmaker Guess, Inc., were involved, and they were right. The IRS raid and a subsequent grand-jury investigation of possible tax violations by Jordache were triggered by tips supplied by Guess to one of the most powerful IRS officials on the West Coast: Ronald Saranow, who then headed the Los Angeles office of the service's criminal-investigation division. Saranow later asked to take an unpaid...
Despite such assurances, the Justice Department has convened a second grand jury in New York City to re-examine the original investigation. Saranow has left the IRS to open a bicoastal private-investigati on business with, among others, Anthony Langone, until recently the IRS's assistant commissioner for criminal investigation...
...wanted to play Henry Jones as a kind of Sir Richard Burton," Connery says. "There was so much behind him and so many hidden elements in his life." In the beginning Henry speaks to his long-lost son slowly, with wide eyes and grand gestures, as if Indy were a child in need of gentle remedial education. "I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father," Connery says of Henry (remember, the Jones family hails from Utah). "And have fun I did -- so much so that I told Harrison, 'If you give...