Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store will hold a grand reopening in the fall to announce its new look. Latzanakis says he hopes to invite Damon to the event...
...there is no grand marketing scheme behind all this. Turns out it's part accident and part convenience...
...positions in his public statements. "I'm glad to hear that," she replied. "We've been concerned about where you stood ever since your appearance with Milosevic on TV." Albright was relieved: if he had opposed the NATO mission, it would have been a public relations fiasco. In the grand solarium of the Petersberg center, the formal meeting of the G-8 went as planned. Over fish and fruit, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and Albright teamed up on Ivanov for one last attempt to push him to accept something stronger than "security presence." Albright persuaded him to accept...
...more than half are, including such giants as the MacArthur Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust. But there's a hot debate over what that change should mean. Only 5.7% of foundation budgets went to causes earmarked for women and girls last year. "Why are women keeping museums in grand style rather than supporting women and girls?" asks philanthropy consultant Mary Ellen Capek. But Boston College charity expert Paul Schervish argues that women are properly making a mark in all areas of giving...
...talky. "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic," the now familiar trapezoidal text-crawl tells us. "The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute." Immediately one is perplexed. A summary made sense in the earlier films; they were episodes IV, V and VI in the grand fable, and as continuations of an initially untold saga, they required some elucidation. But what's the need for back-story text in a tale that is just beginning? Can it be that Lucas was unable to dramatize these events, so he put them in the crawl? That would explain...