Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which evened the Crimson's record at 2-2, set a positive tone for its upcoming Spring Break trip, where it will play in the University of California at Irvine Invitational Tournament and then move on to Montgomery, Ala., where it is entered in the prestigious Blue-Gray Championship...
Even in the Republican-controlled Senate, the Administration's tone antagonized legislators. Deploring the White House's depiction of the contra aid debate as a "disagreement between Republicans in white hats and Democrats wrapped in red banners," Republican Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas declared, "I find this simplistic reasoning to be highly offensive." When it seemed on the verge of sabotaging its own crusade, the Administration shifted tactics slightly late in the week. Said one U.S. official: "Congressmen don't like to be threatened; they like to be cajoled...
Some Congressmen accuse Buchanan of trying to revive the Red-baiting of the McCarthy era with his remarks about the Democrats doing the Kremlin's work, among other canards. Indeed, President Reagan was said to be concerned about the harsh tone of Buchanan's newspaper column last week, and Chief of Staff Regan privately chided Buchanan for rushing his blast into print without first getting White House approval. Buchanan protests, "I'm not suggesting that anyone on the Hill is a Communist. But I do say that this is a choice between the freedom fighters and the Sandinistas." He adds...
...staff editorial has a selfish tone to it. We are all students here, and obviously we have a lot to lose in Federal education cutbacks. But to ask that education programs be spared is to ask, indirectly, that other programs suffer more. All America will have to expect less from the Government in coming years; we students ought to tighten our belts with the rest...
Tacitly, by the tone and scope of its review this fall, the faculty endorsed the students' assessment of the CRR. It now remains for faculty members to decide how to reorganize their 13-member judiciary committee...