Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing for her," said Graf. "She really had felt that she could win it. This is her special tournament." But Steffi never gave much thought to losing. "It would not be the way to go to the Grand Slam," she said. Australia, France and England are in hand, and only next month's American Open remains, in the first sweeping quest on either the men's or women's side since Margaret Court's in 1970. A "special player," a "super player," Martina called Graf, and some say she may soon be as strapped for an opponent as Mike Tyson...
James Sherwin, vice chairman of GAF, is a chess master who delights in plotting diversions to fool his opponents. Now Sherwin, 54, stands accused of < using such tactics to dupe investors. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Sherwin and GAF, a New Jersey-based chemical and building- products manufacturer, on criminal fraud and conspiracy charges for allegedly manipulating the price of Union Carbide stock. GAF and Sherwin are the latest target of investigations growing out of the Ivan Boesky insider- trading probe...
...choose a new 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies as early as next April. Elections for local and regional legislatures will probably be held in late 1989. But Gorbachev clearly will not sit idle in the interim. Last week a U.S. State Department official suggested that a grand gesture may be forthcoming from Moscow in the near future: the unilateral withdrawal of the 65,000 Soviet troops stationed in Hungary...
...Vincennes' procedures and performance. The rationale for the inquiry is clear: If the Vincennes correctly adhered to the rules of engagement, how could America possibly be blamed for the tragedy? But such bureaucratic reasoning and reflexive faith in systematic procedures fails to countenance that sometimes -- in a disorderly world -- grand intentions produce grotesque results...
...three decades of his life in a California madhouse. There, he drew all the time. One could hardly imagine a more marginal existence, yet Ramirez's drawings are of phantasmal and sometimes ravishing beauty. One in this show, the tall Untitled (Tunnels and Trains) from the 1950s, is so grand in its architecture of repeated curves that it deserves a place in any anthology of American drawing...