Europe is setting itself a deadline to adopt a grand plan to address unemployment.
But Marchionne had a grand plan in mind: By saving Chrysler, he could also save Alfa Romeo.
"But we believe the Americans when they say they don't have a grand plan, " he was quick to add.
Richard Nixon had a grand plan for healthcare reform that was on the cusp of passage, and then unfortunately Watergate occurred.
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But Mr Kozak was also in charge of a grand plan for government administrative reform, and that now risks falling by the wayside.
Mr Blair said that the only thing that would save the single currency now was to have a "grand plan" where Germany was ready to commit its economy fully - "treating the debts of one as the debts of all".
Obama said he has no intention of delivering a "grand peace plan" when he travels to the Mideast later this month, downplaying expectations for a breakthrough on his highly anticipated visit to Israel and the West Bank.
In November Russia rescued Belarus's crippled economy with a generous package, as part of Mr Putin's grand plan for a Eurasian Union that will also include Kazakhstan.
The two sides plan a grand summit next year, their first on such a scale.
The move is a step in their grand plan to turn Yonsei into one of the world's top 100 institutions by 2010.
Under a grand anti-crime plan launched by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 2000, top-security federal jails were to be built for people like Mr da Costa.
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And it could be objected that Mr Casini's plan for a grand coalition to keep in power an unelected prime minister is democratically questionable.
The Madrid lab has made only baby steps toward its grand plan to grow a human heart using the same techniques that Dr. Taylor pioneered with a rat heart.
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The last time the 29-year-old, eyeing a fifth title in Melbourne, failed to reach the quarter-finals in a Grand Slam was at the 2004 French Open, and all went to plan with a comfortable first set, starting in blistering style with three aces.
"One of our mottos is get the dam thing right, " said Steve Heintzelman, a local realtor who co-founded Grand River Future Vision, a group of fishing enthusiasts who initially opposed the plan.
"I had no grand plan, " says Lowy, who has a house in Temora and visits about once a month.
As its grand schemes falter, the state is pressing ahead with a more modest plan to turn between 400 and 800 acres (160-320 hectares) of the sea into shallow ponds.
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Optimists hope that their expiry in 2012 will allow a grand bargain to be agreed before then: the lower tax rates could be kept in exchange for a plan to stabilise the federal debt as a share of GDP by closing loopholes and cutting spending.
And the grand plan of shoehorning Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall into office looks like going down the river without a paddle.
They even considered passing a rule change to allow DeLay to keep his leadership post if indicted by the Travis County grand jury (dropping that plan only after public outcry).
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