Word: grand
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...Emory officials quickly denied they were raffling off the president's digs. For its part, the magazine-subscription house pointed out that the picture of Lullwater, which the company says it obtained from a photo agency, was intended only to suggest that whoever wins the contest's $10 million grand prize might wind up in such a mansion. "I've known all along it is a wonderful house," said its current occupant, Emory President James Laney. "But I've been trying to keep it a secret...
...watchful eye on the Broadway incarnation, which started previews on Saturday. "He monitors every word and orchestrates every aspect of the production," says Black. "He is good at casting, costumes, orchestration, design, marketing. Nothing slips through the net." When he does unwind, it is generally at his Steinway grand piano. "Want to hear some tunes?" he will ask, and a moment later will deliver several songs from Aspects in the tuneless dee-dee-dah-dum voice universally adopted by composers...
Camarena's horrible death deeply strained relations between Washington and Mexico City. Though Mexican officials eventually arrested more than 60 people in connection with the case, no one has ever been convicted of the murder. Last week the U.S. moved to advance the probe as a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed up indictments against nine defendants. (The U.S. claims jurisdiction because the murder of an American official anywhere in the world is a crime under federal...
...showed some flair with its popular Chevrolet Beretta and Corsica compacts introduced last year. Now the company is gambling $5 billion to gear up its new GM-10 cars for the more profitable midsize market. These front- wheel-drive coupe models of the Buick Regal, Pontiac Grand Prix and Oldsmobile Cutlass (a Chevrolet model is due next year) replace rear-wheel- drive versions. GM engineers have given each of the cars its own distinctive body lines...
Politics will taint everything this year. But Reagan should be at least an equal act in the grand finale, an act that could produce the INF treaty ratification, a Moscow summit, a new Supreme Court Justice, a ringing budget and free-trade debate and a firming attitude against terrorism...