Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Caribbean Cruises, the world's second largest cruise line, has pleaded guilty to federal charges that it pumped oil-contaminated bilge water into the ocean and tried to cover up its misdeeds for several years by lying to investigators and falsifying records. The company will pay a $9 million fine, $1 million of which is earmarked for conservation projects in Florida and Puerto Rico. It also promised not to do it again...
...locked herself in the bedroom with a second gun and shot herself in the head. The Times quoted a lawyer who handled Hartman's 1985 divorce as saying the couple "had a pattern of arguing at night, and he would go to sleep and everything would be fine in the morning." Not this time...
Human creativity has never been as diffuse nor as democratic as during the past century. The ever evolving fine-art forms have been joined by a host of new media--from cinema to radio and television and a wealth of computer-driven technologies--that have redefined the boundaries of art. And on the wings of these same technologies, the arts have come both to reach and to reflect more people on the planet than at any time in history...
...could see the lingering lure of Astaire art in the reaction to Frank Sinatra's death. That wasn't just Rat Pack nostalgia. It was an effusion of fondness and respect for a fine song finely sung, for vocal connoisseurship, for the ability--the first or the thousandth time he sings a song--to mine the meaning of a lyric...
...Kasich got the blueprint past queasy moderate Republicans in fine candidate style: with a little coalition-building. The House's tax-cut standard bearers -- Kasich, Gingrich, Dick Armey, et al -- promised that the plan's harshest characteristics would surely be softened in negotiations with the Senate anyway, so why not show a little short-term solidarity...