Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important measures concern strategic arms, even though such weapons systems take only 7% of the defense budget. As Jones put it, "The strategic balance sets the tone for what goes on in the rest of the world." The Administration has just taken an important step in this area by approving a $33 billion, ten-year program for the MX ICBM. The movable MX is theoretically invulnerable to surprise attack, so when the Pentagon starts deploying the first of these missiles in Utah and Nevada in 1986, the window of vulnerability will begin closing. The U.S. has also been moving...
...Johns Hopkins in 1971 that Blaylock first encountered Volcker, then Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Volcker had been asked to address the students on the future of the dollar and gold in the international monetary system. Blaylock recalls that the Under Secretary, "with a comforting tone of confidence in his voice, said that the dollar looked promising, but gold, well, that one was nearing extinction." Thus, says Blaylock, "even this nation's newest commander of monetary policy has had his ego bruised by the dollar's poor performance...
Canard's attack could not have come at a more uncomfortable time for Giscard, reports TIME Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller. It underscored the venomous tone that French politics is taking on as the 1981 presidential election approaches. The President's popularity as well as his much vaunted reputation as a fiscal wizard have both slumped badly. According to polls published by Paris' daily France-Soir, his approval rating has dropped nine percentage points since January, to 45%. His countrymen have become increasingly angry about the austere economic policies France has pursued since Giscard named Economist Raymond...
...director schooled in the stylistic demands of black humor might have coaxed a few laughs from the material. Director Norman Jewison (Rollerball, F.I.S.T.) is not that man. His movie's helter-skelter tone swivels irrationally and usually heads straight for a dead end. Mad scenes, broad comic bits and mournful monologues are so indiscriminately mixed that the audience often does not know how to respond. At one point the movie comes to a halt so that we can go on a supposedly comic helicopter ride. There are also pointless interludes in which the hero visits his humorless grandfather...
Aired last week on NBC, Frost's encounter with Kissinger produced a lot of journalistic fuss, but little fresh information. The flash point came at the first taping session, devoted almost entirely to Kissinger's part in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Frost set the tone by summarizing the position of Kissinger critics, a position he plainly shared: "Your policy engulfed Cambodia in the war . . . and it set in train a course of events that was to destroy the country...