Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grand jury investigation was launched in April after a newspaper reporter in Fairbanks questioned the awarding of a noncompetitive, ten-year contract for government office space to a company partly owned by Lenny Arsenault, a Sheffield campaign fund raiser. According to the jury's report, Sheffield and his staff manipulated lease specifications to guarantee that the firm would win the lucrative contract. Sheffield, who has denied the charges, said that he was "devastated" by the grand jury's findings. State legislators, who adjourned in May, will convene in Juneau on July 15 to consider the impeachment issue...
...luxury car is a stretched version of American Motors' Grand Wagoneer, a favorite of skiers and suburbanites. The fancier touches include a built-in champagne bucket and an 8-in. color television, but for rugged back-country terrain, the four-wheel limo also features an electronic shock-absorption system. Morris expects to find buyers for his Jeep limo among oil-well owners and ski-tour operators...
...glory would seem to be especially fleeting, and from third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final at Wimbledon, Navratilova, 28, and Evert Lloyd, 30, had met 65 times over twelve years and stood one victory apart. The most enduring rivals in sports, they represent a conflict more...
...pair of 5-to-4 decisions, the court ruled that officials in Grand Rapids and New York City may not send public school teachers into parochial schools to provide remedial or accelerated classes for disadvantaged or bright children. Justice William Brennan, who wrote both majority opinions, concluded in the Grand Rapids case that by physically entering parochial schools, public school teachers are supplying not only a direct subsidy but also that "crucial symbolic link between government and religion" that the Constitution does not allow. The New York ruling will affect parochial school participation in a 20-year-old federal education...
...Lemon test is a lemon," protested Forest Montgomery, spokesman for the National Association of Evangelicals. The American Civil Liberties Union, however, called the rebuilding of church-state separation a "welcome exercise in true conservatism." A.E. Dick Howard, the University of Virginia law professor who represented taxpayers challenging Grand Rapids' school program, acknowledges that the cases return the court to the mainstream of its own past decisions. But the close vote "shows there is much to be fought over with the next vacancy on the court," he noted. "The majority of five includes most of the older Justices." Says University...