Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York. Governor Mario Cuomo signed the bill into law last week. Seat-belt laws have failed in ten other state legislatures, most recently in the Illinois senate, where lawmakers last month were deluged with letters from constituents opposed to the bill. Legislative Aide Frank Williams said that the general tone of the mail was "You don't tell me what to do in my own automobile." Only an estimated 13% of U.S. auto passengers use their seat belts. In Ontario, Canada, which for eight years has had a law making the failure to use seat belts punishable...
...television age: their regional accents have been smoothed and diluted, their dress is subdued, their ambition is high. They eschew the flamboyant rhetoric of old pols like Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd and House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas, preferring a more measured and sometimes sardonic tone. They even look alike, which is to say telegenic. Says Hart, their most conspicuous spokesman: "Everyone in my generation is good on television. If we weren't, we wouldn't have...
Tramiel moved swiftly and ruthlessly after arriving at Atari's headquarters in a two-tone Rolls-Royce. As industry experts saw it, he intended to dismantle Atari, regarding it as a start-up operation. He pushed aside Chairman James Morgan, 42, the former Philip Morris executive whom Warner had brought in last September to perk up the company. Mor gan had tried to save Atari, chiefly by slashing its worldwide work force from...
...questions serve as the backdrop of the parliamentary election campaign that is now in full swing. If its tone occasionally seems subdued, and if the two main candidates do not always make their differences clear, there is nonetheless a wide philosophical gap between their approaches. The battle is not only over who will be the next Prime Minister but over what kind of society Israel will be ten, 20,100 years from now. "It is a struggle for Israel's soul," says Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem. "It is a question of values, of what to do with...
...Gaza Strip, or defending the controversial 1982 war in Lebanon, Begin hewed to a pugnaciously righteous course that evoked passionate reaction from supporter and foe alike, at home and abroad. Without disavowing Begin's policies, Shamir has tried to steer a course that appears more moderate, at least in tone. Peres, who, like Shamir, possesses little of Begin's fiery charisma, opposes much of what Begin stands...