Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mossad (Israel's equivalent of the CIA), Brigadier General Ephraim Poran, Begin's intelligence adviser, and Eliahu Ben-Eliassar, director-general of the Premier's office. Dayan discussed the need for alternative diplomatic approaches in case of a Geneva conference impasse. He also urged Begin to tone down all talk of new settlements, including hawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon's grandiose plans to settle 2 million Jews in occupied territory. Dayan, however, flew on to Washington with instructions to pursue the prospects for an overall settlement within the framework of a Geneva conference...
...would deprive universities of the recruiting benefits that result from minority admissions programs, which for many minority students represent the only opportunity for fulfilling their dreams. The net effect would be a giant step backwards for the civil rights movement. In this sense, the case takes on a symbolic tone that renders the legal specifics less important...
...today's meet, look for Providence to be the overwhelming favorite: a Harvard victory would be unlikely here. UMass, however, should provide a surer test of the team's ability, and the result may well set the tone for the rest of the season...
...carried a heavy load of political evangelism for the new Administration-and he in turn was greeted like an old friend with warm abrazos. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, who accompanied Young on part of his tour: "Carter could not have picked a more effective emissary for the diplomatic tone-setting job than Young. He functioned as considerably more than a U.N. ambassador, traveling virtually as an alternate Secretary of State with a retinue of specialists on the region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness is his own record...
...partner David Krebs, 37, both successful rock impresarios, have tried to make some sort of psychedelic statement. "What this show really is," says Krebs, "is a panorama of changing forces within American society. In the '60s, what Bob Dylan said, what the Beatles said, really set the tone for kids in terms of drugs, obedience to authority, war, parental guidance. Not that everything they said was right. But that's not the point...