Word: grandly
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Americans are afraid of this economy. As a result, they're getting locked and loaded. To wit: Jacquita Baker, a soft-spoken single mother from Kentwood, Mich., near Grand Rapids. She works as an administrative assistant at the Grand Rapids Urban League and is studying criminal justice at a local university. As of Monday, she's the proud owner of a shotgun. Why bear arms now? "The economy played a large part in my decision," says Baker, 27. "When people don't have jobs, they might go breaking into people's homes. I want to be safe in my home...
Several prominent bank analysts came out with statements yesterday saying that the largest U.S. financial firms would post more heavy losses and that their accounting methods would obscure the worst of it. George Soros, the grand old man of the hedge fund business, repeated his belief that the banks are insolvent. If he is right, earnings are irrelevant...
...despite hints of our mysterious-but-grand plans for a "January Experience," we are actually not going to go through with (un)said plans and offer any J-Term programs. But why this abrupt change of cancellation of plans?? Well, we realized that even half-assing "new, compressed, short-term set of offerings in January" would actually take time that we do not have, since we have to, like, figure out what the deal is with University finances...
...Fellow senior Matt Rogers gave Stack-Babich a serious run for this award, turning in a six-homer week that included two weekend jacks and a monster grand slam in the Crimson’s 12-11 loss to Holy Cross last Wednesday...
...public remarks in London on Wednesday, at a press conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, where the American President said he had come "to listen, not to lecture." At a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Baden-Baden on Friday, a German reporter asked Obama about his "grand designs" for NATO. "I don't come bearing grand designs," Obama said, scrapping the leadership role the U.S. maintained through the Cold War. "I'm here to listen, to share ideas and to jointly, as one of many NATO allies, help shape our vision for the future...