Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black cult known as MOVE left eleven dead and climaxed with a police bomb's destroying 61 Philadelphia row houses. Almost all the 236 surviving residents have since moved back into rebuilt homes, but the action still haunts the administration of Democratic Mayor W. Wilson Goode. Last week a grand jury investigating cost overruns associated with the $9 million home-reconstruction project recommended theft charges against two developers and blasted the mayor's office for what it termed a "morass of incompetence, ineptitude and mismanagement." The grand jury said it has discovered more than $200,000 worth of illicit funneling...
...Motors Acceptance Corp. (1986 assets: $90.78 billion) says the number of leases on its books has increased from about 50,000 in 1982 to about 600,000 last year. GM's Pontiac Division last month introduced 50-month cut-rate leases. Example: under the special offer, a 1987 Pontiac Grand Am that ordinarily leases for about $240 a month is now going for as little...
...scarcely 180 lbs., physically he is not even the most imposing of all the Davises in the major leagues (there are ten). Two days later, he hit three more homers -- one to right center, one to dead center, one to left center -- including his second grand slam of the weekend, putting him first in the National League in home runs (12), RBIs (27), runs (27), slugging (.900) and on-base (.475) percentages, game-winning hits (4) and batting average (.411), and second in stolen bases (10). If he is not launching balls over the center- field fence, he is retrieving...
...with the thumb sticking out, just as J.F.K. did. He has a penchant for some of the high destinarian rhetoric that Kennedy used, the appeal to a visionary new generation. Hart kept using the first person plural in his press releases. His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon...
...YORK--Don Mattingly hit a grand slam and Rickey Henderson and Claudell Washington also homered to lead the New York Yankees to an 9-1 victory over the Texas Rangers yesterday. It was the Yankees 14th win in 16 home games...