Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense lawyers say the pad contains no such recipe for killing but just "writing on a piece of paper." They say Levin was facing grand-theft charges for receiving stolen goods, and is probably not dead at all. Says Defense Attorney Arthur Barens: "Mr. Levin has ample reason to absent himself from the proceedings...
...grand object of travelling," said Samuel Johnson, "is to see the shores of the Mediterranean." The maxim had a special force among artists from the early 1900s to the eve of World War II. It applied to one particular shore: the Cote d'Azur, that strip of Provence that runs from Nice to Hyeres. If ever a littoral was changed from a place to an idea by the efforts of painters, this one was it. Paul Cezanne, a Provencal rooted in the limestone and red clay of his native Aix, had made backcountry Provence around Mont Ste.-Victoire...
Kennedy admits that he has no grand national vision. His premise is simple. "The truth is that hardworking families are struggling and unable to participate fully in the American dream," he says. "That's not right." Says one campaign adviser: "There's still a child's simplistic view of the world in him. He doesn't understand that the world is a place of massive grays." In Congress that may cause problems. "Joe is still volatile and combative," says a veteran of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign. Those qualities do not ease one's way through a political body where...
...DEMCROCRATS WON THE BIGGEST ROUND in Election '86, and they did it in spite of having to operate at a huge disadvantage to the Republicans. The Grand Old Party does not have any lock on virtue, they just have money--five times as much as the Dems in the '86 Senate races...
Zionist leaders are mistaken, however, if they believe that they have gotten away with this grand endeavor. The superpowers, despite the "moral" and other support lent by the U.S., have their own interests in the Middle East. The Arab-Israeli conflict serves as a great chessboard, a weapons testing ground, and the focus of the struggle for intelligence and precious resources. It is not the interest of either to allow the other's proxies to win the incessant wars, so there is no real hope for a military solution. Israel's great tactical superiority is neutralized, while the population clock...