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Word: tone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sells a one-piece touch-tone phone with a 12-month warranty for $15.99. HSA's Science Center desk will be open 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow, and will also sell the phones from its Thayer Hall basement office next week from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phones | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...local calling, one must deal with New England Telephone. They offer metropolitan service, which takes in 44 exchanges in the Boston area at $16.75 a month for a touch-tone dial tone and $16.15 a month for a rotary-set dial tone. For contiguous service--access to Cambridge and all the cities that border on Cambridge--studdents pay $11.20 for touch-tone at d $10.60 for rotary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phones | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...master's choice--for Houses to have a timbre, a tone," Reisman says, adding that because a master could only choose a maximum of 30 percent of the future population, and these would all be from those who wanted to choose the House, the old system was no more conductive to homogeneity than the present...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Against All Odds | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...seemed to smell blood. The best-received barbs, and the constant efforts to link Walter Mondale to the Carter presidency, reflected a conservative ideology that relished its moment of triumph within the party. In notable contrast to his acceptance speech in Detroit four years ago, Reagan endorsed the tendentious tone with an unusually sharp attack of his own. He called the election "the clearest political choice of half a century," involving "two fundamentally different ways of governing-their Government of pessimism, fear and limits, or ours of hope, confidence and growth." Indeed, he went so far as to suggest that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting Out to Whomp 'Em | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...thus reviving an old, seldom used Republican charge that a Democrat was in the White House at the start of every war fought by the U.S. in this century. Other Republican speakers had limited their Democrat bashing to the current ticket, but Goldwater had crustily rejected all requests to tone down his remarks. Explained a Reagan aide: "He insisted on keeping the lines he liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting Out to Whomp 'Em | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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