Word: grand
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That still was partly true for Ronald Reagan in 1987, particularly when he joined Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev this month for the grand rituals of signing away all the world's intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Nonetheless, this was a disappointing year for the President, who turned 76 and underwent three new bouts of surgery. Although he remained in the spotlight, he lingered there largely as a victim, a passive witness to the erosion and disintegration of his own fading Administration...
JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING Forget Wall Street. For a really savage study of greed and relentless connivance, see Claude Berri's double- decker movie. His tale of fate-haunted French peasants is also that movie rarity: tragedy on the grand and classic scale...
...would have been subjected to withering cross-examination, Miller won not-guilty verdicts on two key counts. Moreover, Deaver and others are challenging the constitutionality of the 1978 law that established independent counsel. Two of Deaver's three guilty verdicts came on charges of lying to Seymour's grand jury that was investigating him for possible ethics-law violations. If the independent-counsel law is overturned, Seymour's work would be thrown out, and Deaver would be liable for retrial only on a single count of falsely testifying to a congressional committee. Given the evidence against Deaver, it was perhaps...
Telephone logs showed that former Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole received a call from Deaver to discuss attempts by his client TWA to avoid a hostile takeover. Dole was never called to appear as a witness, but Deaver was found guilty of lying about the matter to a grand jury...
...brings in respectable gratuities. Prestidigitation -- securing tickets to a sold-out play-off game or making last-minute reservations at the hottest restaurant -- can earn a hefty $100. Gifts from satisfied guests are not uncommon. "I never have to do any Christmas shopping," says Bettye Bradley, 61, of the Grand Hotel in Washington. "All I have to do is rewrap my gifts." Free meals, tickets, liquor and perfume also come from those eager for guest referrals. There is no doubt the job has growing clout. "We can basically make or break a restaurant," boasts Donna Eller at the Sheraton Grande...