Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategic nuclear weapons in Geneva at the end of June. But the early portents were mixed. In Rome, a crowd estimated at anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 marched Saturday in a demonstration, organized largely by the Italian Communist Party, that took on a decidedly anti-American tone. On the other hand, organizers claimed to have brought out 100,000 people in Bonn the same day for a pro-U.S. rally; some carried signs asking WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT AMERICA...
Certain that the go ahead has been given. Civil and Al, perhaps the most valuable Buildings and Grounds employees at Harvard on this day, will tap the great church bell with a sledgehammer, producing the required "gay and cheerful tone" that an automatic clanger can not achieve...
...nuclear freeze movement, and they don't wish to continue to nurture that child. They would like to dismiss it, and one way to do that is to move, as many students of the presidency have often argued, to a somewhat more centrist position to appear more accommodating, to tone down the rhetoric, to come forth with more substantive proposals....I do think also, it took quite a while for this administration to get its act together and hammer out a start negotiating position. In fact, it wasn't really hammered out, because there are virtually incompatible views within this...
Take, for instance, the divestiture movement. The activist joined the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) during the heated months before the torchlight parade through the square that drew over 1000 students and constituted the largest demonstration since the anti-Vietnam movement days. Some heat remains in his tone now when he discusses the student-faculty committee that advises the corporation on its investments: "I don't know how anybody can sit on the ACSR without a certain sense of shame because they are so clearly being used--unless they went on specifically to change the committee...
...handed," an official at the Department of Education (DOE) recently answered a call. Although opposition on the Hill has stopped President Reagan from fulfilling a campaign promise to dismantle the department, the DOE has fired many employees, cut down on the number of publications it releases and "changed its tone." Although students and professors at Harvard's School of Education, the school with the closest ties to the department, do not believe the DOE must exist in its present form, they are generally hostile to the changes Reagan has brought about in the area of education...