Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington is concerned by Vajpayee's public pro-nuke pronouncements but accepts at face value private assurances that his government will not heat up the arms race, at least not before it has completed a lengthy comprehensive review of defense strategy. Pakistan is worried, though, by the aggressively nationalistic tone in New Delhi. On April 6, Islamabad test-fires its first intermediate-range missile, the Ghauri, named for a 12th century Muslim conqueror who defeated the last Hindu King of Delhi, Prithviraj Chauhan. Prithvi also happens to be the name of one of India's ballistic missiles capable of toting...
...almost overcomes these obstacles. Although some cynics may write the show off as the precessor to such noise-fests as Stomp and Tap Dogs, Noise/Funk is much more than a mere display of men creating sounds with everyday objects. Although it starts off with an eardrum-shattering intro, the tone of the show quickly quiets down and the real story begins...
Apart from certain omissions, there was nothing factually inaccurate in what Kolata wrote. Folkman, in his statements, went out of his way to downplay his findings. But his carefully cautionary tone was completely overshadowed by the quotes Kolata attributed to a host of other scientists and the adjectives they used to describe Folkman's work. His results were "remarkable," "exciting" and "wonderful." Dr. James Pluda of the National Cancer Institute said he and his colleagues were "electrified" and "almost overwhelmed" by the data...
...Pulitzer-prizewinning oratorio, Blood on the Fields, and a jazz reworking of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat with which Marsalis was touring the country the past two weeks, it's a relief to hear him relaxed and just playing for a change. With his unrivaled command of tone and phrasing, his Louis Armstrong-like ability to set up a sustained note so that it hits a dramatic sweet spot, Marsalis' trumpet is particularly voicelike in its expressiveness--for him, a "with strings" outing is almost a natural. At times Robert Freedman's arrangements buoy him tastefully; at others they...
...point, the traditionally seedy associations that cling to impotence remedies (witness the ads in the back of low-rent men's magazines for spurious Spanish fly, hard-on creams and the like) that drug companies have only recently turned their attention to sexual dysfunction. This would account for the tone adopted by Pfizer chairman and CEO William Steere even as he figuratively licks his chops over the potential market in "aging baby boomers." He is careful to point out that "quality-of-life drugs are gene-based just like those for serious medical conditions. In areas like impotence, aging skin...