Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naiveté and vacillations of Jimmy Carter or with the worldwide anti-Soviet "crusade" proclaimed by Ronald Reagan last summer. In an interview with TIME in New York City last week, Nixon made clear that he thinks it is time for the Reagan Administration to change both the tone and substance of its dealings with Moscow...
...life writers, Valerie Curtin and Barry (Diner) Levinson, are married. The picture is a skewed documentary about two professionals working hard to be both witty and romantic. This time they worked too hard. In an attempt, perhaps, to place a discreet distance between confession and comedy, they allowed the tone of their script to become jarringly uneven. Barnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy, as Paula's parents, are repositories of senile pathos; Audra Lindley, as Richard's mom, is a shtik figureggressively annoying the next, with sutures provided by background music that never lets the viewer discover a mood...
Throughout his first week in office, as he assumed the powers he will hold as President of Mexico for the next six years, De la Madrid acted like a man eager to set a new tone. His aim: to impose austerity, efficiency and, above all, "moral renovation"-a euphemism for honesty-upon a nation battered by economic troubles and demoralized by the latter-day excesses of López Portillo...
...very intelligent attitude on the part of the U.S. The relationship between Mexico and the U.S., although it has its difficult aspects, will continue fundamentally to be good. We are neighbors, partners and friends, and I am sure the relationship will have a positive and fruitful tone during my administration...
Mugabe, who considers himself a Marxist, has made no secret of his long-term aim of turning Zimbabwe into a one-party state, but is too dependent on aid from the West, primarily the U.S. and Britain, to risk a further swing to the left. Given the shrill tone of Smith's comments, many in Harare wondered if the former Prime Minister was not trying to impose conditions on American...