Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narcissism surrounding The Game can transcend the ridiculous turf wars and rivalries between the Houses at Harvard. House spirit is fine, but only in moderation. For example, the shameful humiliation of students from other Houses by Adams House residents protesting inter-house access was more about vindictive exclusivity than House spirit--the very opposite of the spirit of The Game. In addition, the Game promotes a mix of upperclass students and first-years rarely seen outside of large core classes...
...National Security Adviser Sandy Berger had been rushing around, thinking detail. Checking off extra bombing options. Tweaking instructions to the U.N. envoys. Fine-tuning the perfect strike against the Iraqi leader who has bedeviled the U.S. for eight long years...
...clubs and edits an award-winning high school newspaper. She does homework for 6 hr. till 1:30 a.m. "Sometimes I am about to break into tears," she says. "Just having my mother put her arm around me and say that it's O.K., that I am doing fine and should not give up is all I need to get back on track." Her fellow senior Megan Shutts, 17, gets hugs as well but also receives much needed guidance. "My mother helps me make lists of what I plan to accomplish next week. She will tell me, 'This weekend...
...with mercury to South Africa without notifying the EPA, as required by law. Last March, on the third day of what was expected to be a three-week trial, the company signed a consent agreement to settle the case. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Borden Chemicals agreed to pay a fine of $3.6 million--the largest in Louisiana history. The company also consented to spend $3 million to clean up groundwater contamination and stop injecting waste into underground storage wells, and to donate $400,000 for equipment for local emergency response units...
...weep for Borden Chemicals. It was able to pay the fine with just a couple of years' savings from abated taxes. For over the past decade, while the plant has been fouling the land, water and air in Louisiana, the state has excused the company from paying $15 million in property taxes as part of just one of its corporate-welfare programs. A Borden spokesman said even with the exemption, the tax the company pays in Louisiana is "about average" for Southern states. Without the exemption, he says, Louisiana would no longer be "competitive as far as trying to attract...