Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1969, while inflation has soared by 60.5%, these officials have received a grand total of 5% in raises. As a result, says the salary commission's report, good people are leaving Government in a flood. If the trend continues, the Government will eventually be run by the rich, the young, the untried and perhaps the unsavory. Adds the report: "The costs of such a government reach beyond the costs of a salary increase; they are incalculable, and to a free people unacceptable...
...have a total population larger than the Super Bowl's TV audience. Only the World Cup soccer final, a few heavyweight championship fights, and the Olympics attract a bigger one-day sports audience. All are events of worldwide interest, steeped in tradition. The Super Bowl spectacle pivots around a grand, but parochial American passion. It was born a mere decade ago, the child of technology, a unique combination of slick and schlock with no history at all save a profound connection to a taproot of the human psyche...
...witness, a physician on the staff of the Tufts New England Medical Center, was called to testify in from of the grand jury which arraigned the defendants on December 18. No other witnesses have yet been presented for the prosecution...
...coins stolen from the Fogg Museum are found in the piggybank of the daughter of Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg. After testifying before a grand jury investigating the theft, Slive tells reporters, "I thought they looked familiar...
...Negro Ensemble Company has always displayed a remarkable ardor and virtuosity in performance. The caliber of the plays has sometimes lagged behind. In The Brownsville Raid, the company has a grand theme to work with-a harsh miscarriage of justice...