Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...views of politicians who no longer hold national office were sought because they would be able to speak more forthrightly about the issues at stake and about the reception the President is likely to receive from his peers. Although the assessments differ in accent and tone, they are united by two strong, recurring themes: the need to control the arms race and to cope with a global economic crisis...
...their drive to improve productivity, a growing number of U.S. companies have begun to appreciate the crucial importance of shop-floor supervisors. For better or worse, that hard-pressed first level of bosses often sets the working tone for an entire plant. The style has traditionally been management by shouting: bark out orders like a Marine drill instructor until they get results...
...robot helping employers and job seekers meet each other." The Voyce, which is a computer at Softwork headquarters, explains that it will compile a résumé for the caller if he answers the robot's questions by pushing the proper buttons on a touch-tone phone. If the caller is using a dial phone, the Voyce tells him that it cannot hear his answers. A sample question: "Are you presently a student or a worker? Enter one if student, two if worker." The machine uses the answers to produce a resume, which Softwork sends to employers. Softwork...
With that death threat, the federal investigation into possible ties between Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and various Mafia-related labor racketeers took on a more sinister tone. Silbey said it was the second such warning he has received in the past month Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Senate committee, said that he had also received "some minor threats in this matter,'' but did not consider them "significant." However, the warnings to Silbey, Hatch said, "were serious," although there was no way to determine who had made the telephone calls. Declared Hatch: "They...
Indeed, some critics have argued that Thatcher's strong initial reaction and abrasive tone may have made it impossible from the beginning for the macho-minded Argentine leaders to make concessions. But Thatcher's supporters-and on the Falklands issue, that includes the vast majority of Britons-would counter that her government's belligerent stance was the only possible response to the original outrage of seizing the islands by force. Possibly Britain's greatest error was allowing the Falklands dispute to come to such a pass in the first place. Snaps one senior U.S. diplomat...