Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world whose meaning otherwise might escape him. As a young child, Coles recalls, he was perplexed by the obstinancy of his father's letter writing habit, but in this volume he seems to have grasped fully its purpose and its potential as a means of reflecting on grand themes in short spaces...
...Berlin from Parkin's house. Lackner insists he was only trying to arrange to have a cup of coffee with Berlin. Nonetheless, Berlin has been reassigned, and the uproar has held up the award of the IFF contract. Parkin and Lackner have both been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury that begins meeting in Alexandria next month to delve further into the contracting scandals...
Pamela Harriman, grand dame widow of Averell and a valued Democratic fund raiser, backed Senator Albert Gore in the primaries. Yet she managed to be on the dais with Dukakis, smiling silkily, as he delivered his first major foreign policy speech this month at the Atlantic Council. Georgetown denizens began whispering that she hopes to become the next Ambassador to the United Nations. At the same conference, Andrew Pierre, a Paris-based defense expert, was the first to ask Dukakis a question. "Andrew shot up out of his seat like a Pershing II missile," a colleague knowingly observed. In social...
After getting details of the budding Pentagon scandal from Carlucci last week, President Reagan summoned to the White House his top law-enforcement officials, including the Attorney General, the FBI director and U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson, who is coordinating the grand jury work in Alexandria, Va. Reagan asked for a "thorough investigation" of the allegations and said he was "very concerned" about them...
...sweep included the offices of at least five Pentagon procurement officials, 15 defense contractors and six consultants, mostly former Pentagon insiders who now work as middlemen between their former associates and firms seeking military contracts. Magistrates issued more than 200 subpoenas demanding specific records or personal appearances before federal grand juries...