Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...priority to significantly improve the meager options currently available to campus vegetarians. Third, Mayer should move to improve the quality of the "ethnic food" served in the dining halls. All too often these well-intentioned attempts end up defaming rather than fostering appreciation for the world's fine culinary traditions...
...moms, and now that their children have left home, they do extensive volunteer work in the community. As soon as I told them how much I was looking forward to work, they began to raise the issues that I had been trying to ignore. "Working those hours will be fine for two years, dear," one said, "But what happens when the babies come?" I cringed...
...Listen, Jeffrey," I said, "I really don't see anything wrong with Gingrich paying that fine out of campaign funds. In fact, I intend to write a column to that effect...
Krakauer, a thoughtful man and a fine writer (his Into the Wild, a report of a wilderness death in Alaska, was one of the best nonfiction books of 1996), says the ratio of misery to pleasure on Everest was greater than on any other mountain he has climbed. He draws no ringing conclusions from the disaster, although he thinks that banning bottled oxygen might keep weaker climbers off the mountain...
...Actually," I said to Jeffrey, "I was thinking maybe the Democrats would figure out a way to get that fine paid, just so they could have Newt there for 'You're one too' purposes. They seem to be good at shifting around money in a quiet...