Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ec10 mentality teaches us that there are winners (like Bill Gates) and losers (like inner city America) in our system, and that this is not only "fine," but the way it should be. And campus publications act as an endless reserve of proof that many of our fellow classmates seem to believe wholeheartedly in the sanctity of the market...
...thought filing your taxes was tough. Householders across Ulster will be checking the fine print on the 75-page Northern Ireland peace accord Tuesday, as several hundred thousand glossy copies of the deal drop onto doormats. It?s the beginning of a British government campaign to encourage people in the province to vote in next month?s referendum -- a campaign that stops short of calling for a ?yes? vote. ?The dominant political slogan here for a long time has been ?Ulster Says No,? so it can be counterproductive to just come out and say it,? said a Northern Ireland Office...
...busted it. In doing so he burnished himself with instant glory as the champion of American individual enterprise against corporate "malefactors of great wealth." That reputation suited him just fine, although he privately believed in Big Business and was just as wary of unrestrained, amateurish competition. All he wanted to establish, early in his first term, was government's right to regulate rampant entrepreneurship...
...intellectual; during the most dramatic years of his leadership, he gulped philosophy books, commented on the Bible, flirted with Buddhism, even taught himself ancient Greek in order to read Plato in the original; he had a relentless curiosity about the natural sciences (but no taste for fiction or the fine arts). He would quote Spinoza as if throwing rocks at a rival. Verbal battle, not dialogue, was his habitual mode of communication. Rather than a philosopher, he was a walking exclamation mark, a tight, craggy man with a halo of silvery hair and a jawbone that projected awesome willpower...
...been discussed in human terms, the usual investigations have been made, his family tree has been studied, a former girlfriend has been unearthed (so what?), the spotlight has been turned on his wife. His completely ordinary education, colleagues, friends and past have all been gone over with a fine-tooth comb. By all accounts, Gorbachev shouldn't have been Gorbachev. Then the pundits study the politics of the Soviet Union, evoke the shadow of Ronald Reagan and Star Wars, drag out tables and graphs to show that the Soviet economy was doomed to self-destruct, that it already had, that...