He also confirmed the three-day Grand National Festival had benefited from the cancellation of the Cheltenham Gold Cup due to the foot-and-mouth crisis.
It was, in the grand scheme of my day, kind of a big deal.
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Collin Cowgill, who hit a grand slam on opening day, had a solo homer in the Mets' eighth.
That, it is hoped, would free board members to focus more on grand strategy than on day-to-day operations.
The company that the group started that day, Grand Junction, would go on to build Fast Ethernet, running at 100 megabits per second on ordinary telephone wire, ending Ethernet's bottleneck.
When Weiszbrod and I get back to the ranch at 10 AM on a glorious fall morning in this picture-perfect place, I have a greedy realization: it would be possible here at High Lonesome to do the Rocky Mountain Grand Slam in one day.
The refreshed club has already undergone some adversity, briefly closing the day after its grand re-opening because of health code violations.
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For the unitiated, Groupon is the grand daddy of deal a day sites, offering multiple deals in 500 cities and 44 countries.
His mother and father travelled to the US from Scotland to walk with him in his role as Grand Marshal of the Tartan Day parade.
We spent our first day at the Grand Canyon with hundreds of other families along its southern rim, marvelling that the little brown trickle at the bottom has carved out such an elemental void.
Despite fears that Las Vegas would suffer from an excess of new hotels, a torrent of visitors left not a single room empty for a single day at MGM Grand's namesake casino-hotel in the second quarter.
To be the secretary of defense, you see, is a bit like being the grand marshal at an Independence Day parade: You wear a sash, you hold a baton, you say a few words, you smile, wave and walk the route.
But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.
While billboard in modern day NYC in Grand Theft Auto might fit right in with the environment, how do you plug a product on an alien planet in the year 2553 in Halo, or do the same in a fictional medieval world filled with dragons and orcs in Skyrim?
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Libby resigned as Cheney's chief of staff and national security adviser Friday, the day a federal grand jury handed up an indictment against him after an investigation into who told reporters the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of a former diplomat who had criticized the Bush administration.
Monica's presentation was enough to persuade the prosecutors to offer her an extraordinary deal: complete transactional immunity from prosecution for both Monica and her mother, which means that nothing Monica or anyone else says can be used to put her in jail unless she fails to testify truthfully when she finally has her day before the grand jurors.
The opening day of the second grand slam of the season did not feature the leading attractions, but French hope and fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga gave the home crowd some cheer with a four sets win over Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov.
That extra attention to detail has already begun at the Ferrari factory as the team's engineers solved the problem with Alonso's faulty drag reduction system (DRS) -- an overtaking aid which increases the car's straight-line speed by flipping open the top flap of the rear wing -- the day after the Bahrain Grand Prix.
If it ended up that way, it would certainly feel familiar: England found itself in the same position just two years ago when the Grand Slam slipped away on the final day against Ireland and it managed to claim the Six Nations title after Wales lost in Paris.
"One day we will have the Welsh Grand National here, " Mr Walters confidently predicted.
The new faces included Tory Jesse Norman, who tweeted: A day of joy on the Welsh Grand Committee re: tax devolution for Wales.
Gethin Jenkins took on the role that day as Wales denied England the Grand Slam and retained the trophy it had won in 2012.
Hence Diageo, for the merged Guinness-Grand Met, which combines the Latin for day with the Greek for world and means nothing in any language.
Whilst recording a short interview with him this morning, I sensed that he would have preferred a day of relaxation in the MGM Grand to a six-hour round trip, even in a comfy limo.
When I arrived for my interview with Abol Fotoh on a mild, sunny day in January 2007 at a grand building housing the Arab Medical Union just off a busy Cairo street, I was ushered into a patients' waiting room.
"Old Winthrop, that day he wrote a cheque for five grand and put it in the chapel fund, " smiles Daniel Merry, savouring the memory.
"The bank has given too much priority to grand schemes and acquisitions, rather than running a day-to-day bank, " said Alastair Winter, chief economist at Daniel Stewart Securities.
One day, several years off, a grand conference of interested parties may be able to redraw the map of the Balkans with the consent of its people.
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