Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought it was a very fine address laying out a new liberalism fitting the traditions of Harvard Divinity School and suggesting some of the directions in which the school should move forward," Kaufman said...
...town. But somehow Silicon Valley keeps booming despite the fact that a significant fraction of the computers it ships either don't work as advertised or don't work at all. In a new Windows magazine survey, some 87 percent of respondents reported that their computers booted up just fine. That sounds pretty good at first glance; but what it really means is that an astounding 13 percent of PCs are either dead on arrival or seriously maimed...
Since I can remember, the Lions have spent big money on such sure-fire quarterback prospects as Chuck Long, Andre Ware and Rodney Peete. They were fine in college, and are currently living comfortably on fat contracts doled out by Detroit, the NFL's version of public assistance for quarterbacks without marketable job skills...
There is a fine line between activism and fanaticism, but several aspects of fanaticism are significant enough that should make us loath to return to those days of good intentions gone horribly awry, the early 1990s. For one thing, activists turned into absolutists. Healthy debate got thrown out the window. It's hard to have a spirited, enlightened discussion when both sides have set up their snow forts on each side of the lawn, nobody venturing forth into the middle lest he or she be pelted by a barrage of threats, epithets, and slurs, all delivered with the subtlety...
...their meeting Wednesday, perhaps the most potent political snub there is. It's a sign that Democrats are taking heart from the President's poll numbers and getting behind the White House's "censure plus" plan -- censure plus a personal apology to Congress, perhaps, or censure plus a large fine -- in an effort to get this over with. "Republicans have to face the reality that an overwhelming majority of the American people do not want the Clinton presidency to end," said New Jersey senator Robert Torricelli. "Reasonable people should come together...