Word: grandes
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...Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...
...bitter irony of the day was that neither plane had been scheduled to land at Tenerife at all. Both had been headed for El Gando Airport in Las Palmas on Grand Canary Island some 50 miles away. In a plot twist that even Hollywood would have thought farfetched, a bomb had exploded in a vase in a flower shop at El Gando shortly before the planes were due to land there. Both were diverted to Tenerife-and had been cleared to resume their journeys when the fatal encounter occurred...
...what qualifies him for such high posts? Schlesinger is a systems analyst, a member of a special American priesthood that has grown up to cope with the many questions concerning the effectiveness of government and business strategies. Systems analysis, which is really good common sense on a grand scale, combines the knowledge of mathematical probabilities with the aim of dealing with problems in their entirety rather than just piece meal. But since systems analysts use a language unintelligible to outsiders, they have acquired an almost mystical aura. Schlesinger recognized this several years ago and wrote a critical treatise that offended...
Still, we are a long time arriving at the good stuff. Like the bestseller on which it was based, Black Sunday has aspirations toward being a grand-scale detective story. From the start, the Israelis and U.S. officials know that some big game is afoot, and they keep plodding along two or three steps behind Mastermind Keller (whose heavy German accent requires a great deal of unpersuasive explanation if she is to be passed off as an Arab) and her weird companion. Along the way Dern, who had broken down trying to make the transition from North Vietnamese prison camp...
...list goes on. Stan Mikita looks pathetic on the ice now, trying vainly to keep up with his flashy younger counterparts. Arnold Palmer needs divine intervention to one-putt a green, much less win a tournament. Rod Laver won two Grand Slams in tennis but hasn't reached the finals of a major tournament since Jimmy Connors' first communion...