Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Johnson and Orioles owner Peter Angelos have been squabbling since Angelos hired the manager two seasons ago; the feud boiled over when Johnson imposed a $10,000 fine on Roberto Alomar ? and directed the second baseman to pay it to Johnson's favorite charity, on the board of which the coach?s wife sits. Angelos thought that was improper, and has been relentlessly chiding Johnson about it all offseason. The real nettle, of course, may be that Johnson's offseason started a bit earlier than his boss had hoped when the Orioles lost to the Indians, a team they...
...adopted sooner or later. Why not now, then, so that we can save those several million dollars and do something more useful? The largest group of lobbyists for the census are business leaders who want to use the census as free market data. Although business interests are fine and good, there are a lot more useful things that could come of several million dollars for the rest of the country, and businesses could conduct their research with their own money...
...market from IBM, Dragon Systems and Kurzweil all support continuous voice recognition, which means you can speak into the computer without pausing at a normal rate. You can't talk as fast as the guy from the Micro Machines commercial, of course, but a conversational pace is fine...
NaturallySpeaking did a fine job of recognizing what I said; it's just that most of us have the system of typing so deeply ingrained in our writing process that it may be difficult to adjust our own cognitive processes...
This week, around the world, brokers were working for their firms, jettisoning anything that moved. That's how you can get markets that don't rebound and stocks that go down, even though the fundamentals are just fine. Add the uncertainty of faltering Asian business conditions, and the selling makes all kinds of sense...