Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement. Walsh's office said. "The Justice Department's memorandum misstates our brief. It is addressed largely to collateral issues that should obscure the criminal charges in the indictment returned by the grand jury...
...taken one of the greatest teams in sports history, the New York Yankees, and turned them into a bad show. As master of ceremonies Steinbrenner decides which act goes first (and is then repeated) and on whom the spotlight shines. For Steinbrenner, baseball is one grand opportunity to have his name on the marquee...
...master of grand illusion helplessly labors under self-delusion. George, look who their owner...
...known as the GM-10 series, which is designed to compete with Ford's cars for young families: the Taurus, best- selling midsize car in the U.S., and the Sable. The sporty GM-10s have debuted as two-door versions of the Olds Cutlass Supreme, Buick Regal and Pontiac Grand Prix; the four-door models are expected next fall. Already, one of them, the Chevrolet Lumina, is known inside GM as a "Taurus killer." But inasmuch as four-door cars make up 75% of U.S. auto sales, analysts wonder why GM first came out with two-door models, then allowed...
...either man. The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer editorial-page editor, Ed Williams, said his paper backed Dukakis "unenthusiastically," but pointed out that "voters do not enjoy the luxury of not endorsing." The Times decried a "no-issue campaign" in which George Bush has run "irrelevantly, like someone seeking to be Grand Inquisitor" and Michael Dukakis has run "mechanically, like a candidate for Plant Superintendent." What tipped the scales to Dukakis for the Times was the budget deficit and Bush's plan to cut the capital-gains tax; for the Globe, it was Dan Quayle...