Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hisses, tears and vehement debate set the tone at an emotional discussion of the Vietnam War yesterday by members of the class...
Also striking a regretful tone was Dr. John B.Levine '70, a clinical instructor in psychiatry atHarvard Medical School...
Gates doesn't control too much, he controls too little. Encourage him to finish building his monopoly. Let him manage the flow of bits end-to-end, from the boxes that sit on our desktops to the servers that run mighty networks. Let him provide the digital dial tone for the information superhighway. Look the other way while Microsoft gobbles up cable and telephone companies so it can have a direct information pipeline into every home. Ignore it when Gates colonizes Hollywood and starts running the film and TV industry. Give him Intuit. And throw in the banks...
That is more than will come from bullyragging by Congress. In fact, if its actions prompt an increasingly confrontational tone, an already suspicious Beijing might be convinced that the U.S.'s real aim is not cooperation but, as in days past, containment-a situation in which, as Levin puts it, the "two countries could come to see each other as enemies." In short, a vision that might become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...obtrusive and beboppin' around, you give the impression of insecurity, and that becomes infectious. It bleeds down into the actors, and they become nervous; then it bleeds down into the crew, and they become nervous, and you don't get much accomplished that way. You have to set a tone and just demand a certain amount of tranquility...