Word: grander
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...allowed police agencies to keep assets seized from drug traffickers and money launderers. But not, of course, for personal use. Last week six members of an elite Los Angeles County sheriff's narcotics squad were convicted of conspiring to steal $48,000. They were acquitted of larceny on a grander scale: spending $1.4 million in confiscated cash on luxury cars, boats, jewelry and vacation homes...
...communist Hun Sen government. Others, like former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Democratic Senator Robert Kerrey, think the war could end through regular government-to-government contact between Washington and Phnom Penh and the lifting of the U.S.-led economic boycott of Cambodia. The former vision may be grander; the latter has a far better chance of success...
...retailer from the Morse-Harris Group, owners since 1985. Estimated price: $40 million. Once America's top toy merchant, Schwarz was - losing customers by the early 1980s to competitors like Toys "R" Us. But Morse-Harris revived the firm by closing unprofitable locations, moving the flagship store to grander quarters farther up Fifth Avenue and boosting catalog sales. KBB's plans for Schwarz include its first European and Japanese outlets...
...film offering the spectacle of a Komodo dragon being transported across a state line for immoral purposes can be lightly dismissed. That's especially true when it also offers a delicious send-up of the contemporary passion for exotic culinary experiences and an equally wicked satire of the grander pretenses of cinema scholarship. The latter is an occupation that director Bergman, who has a Ph.D. in cultural history, narrowly escaped by turning to more self-consciously comic forms (he wrote The In-Laws and the play Social Security...
...larger than his Oval Office desk. In fact, an inconspicuous block of marble about that size was erected in front of the National Archives Building in Washington 20 years after he died, in 1945. But as his place in history has grown, so too has the demand for something grander. Next year ground will at last be broken on a "gardenesque" layout of granite walls and waterfalls near the Potomac River...