Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More striking than any of the board members' numerical forecasts, however, is the marked change in the overall tone of some of their comments. Sinai, usually a sturdy optimist, now sees "the greatest risk to good times since 1989-91," the period that included the last outright recession, and though he predicts only a growth recession, he immediately adds that "I can't guarantee there will not be a recession in a traditional sense...
...exit. This week he expects finally to depart for home and maybe a political career in North Carolina. "As soon as Congress is gone, he's gone," says a White House official. Bowles, credited with bringing order to a chaotic operation and setting a less partisan tone with Republicans, wanted to leave last January, but PRESIDENT CLINTON implored him to stay. The decision is probably one Bowles has at times regretted: only days after he announced that he would stay, the Lewinsky scandal broke. Although Bowles has pointedly kept himself out of that crisis--last month he said that until...
...help but say the title of this movie slowly, in a portentous, ominous and deep tone, like the one used by that guy who does all of the voice-overs for those action-movie trailers. Go ahead, say it out loud...
...write about someone called Felicity. He had also been thinking about a girl he admired from afar in high school and was mulling over a coming-of-age tale. The name pulled these musings together, and all at once Abrams had a character, a story and even a tone--bright, delicate, pleasing. Felicity...
...Move! Oh, accursed game! My wife and daughters want to play only Bust-A-Move-2, a Tetris-like, digital opiate, circa 1996, that entails firing small colored balls into three-of-a-kind formations. When you lose, a chicken squawks in what sounds to me like a mocking tone. I will admit the game has appeal. But compared to football? Please...