Word: tone
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...differently. "McHarvard," in my opinion, was one of the most amusing, insightful and thought-provoking articles I have read in The Crimson in a long time. While Harvard students are obviously not as homogeneous in their support of the Big Mac as the article suggests, I think that the tone of the article was crucial to its impact and readability...
Harvard's long distance service differs from MIT's in that Harvard handles its own billing and charges long distance users a fee for basics such as touch-tone dialing, installation fees, taxes, line repair, caller ID and caller block. This charge is additional to the regular MCI rates, Grenier said...
Recognizing the pessimistic tone of his forecast, Yavlinsky said that to avert an oligarchic future Russia ought to apply the mantra "Just do it" to the cause of reform...
...well. Merlin Petzold, 63, a retired General Motors engineer in Cascade Township, Mich., builds user-friendly telephones for people with disabilities. Inspired by his wife Nadine, a multiple-sclerosis patient, Petzold fitted out a standard phone with straws and tubes that allow users to puff for a dial tone and sip in order to dial a preset number, such as 911. Petzold's nonprofit company, Envirotrol, builds as many as 70 such phones a year for customers in the U.S. and as far away as Peru and Saudi Arabia...
...musical attraction of "Semi-Charmed Life" is the scat section of the chorus-an easy sing-along that gives permission to even the most tone deaf amateur to join in (believe me, I know!). Along with this bebop blast, the chorus proclaims "I want something else, to get me through this...semi-charmed kind of life." Who better to identify with this mantra than the supposedly characteristic bored youth generation? Well, I have no answer for that, but I can say that a handful of suburban kids working jobs for spending money and wasting time in search of fun would...