Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done to better trade relations and to prevent protectionism. Now governments can impose tariffs and other restrictions and still remain loyal to the letter of the Geneva package. At the outset of the talks, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary R.T. McNamar declared. "The GATT ministerial decision may well set the tone of international economics, and therefore international political relations generally for the rest of the 20th century." If so, the next 18 years will offer deceptive views of a world economy, deteriorating international trust, and few hopes of improved trading relations...
...woman set the tone for the audience of about 100 when she shouted, "No free speech for speech as the former Major General approached the podium...
...first two events that set the tone for the rest of the meet." Coach Frank Haggerty said after his first win as the team's head coach...
...most's very first event, the 35-lb, weight throw, Al Quintero set the tone for the evening with a superb toss of 57 ft., 4 in., his personal best by over four feet and almost a foot over the IC4A qualifying distance...
...main event of the past two or three years, so far as the New York art world is concerned, has been the "rebirth" of European art-mainly young, German and Italian, expressionist in mode and flirtatiously eclectic in tone. The spectrum of achievement runs from mere operators like Salome to deeply serious artists of the caliber of Anselm Kiefer. The fact that an American audience is paying attention to European painting once more comes as a relief, but before attention gets wholly stylized as fashion, it is worth remembering that England is part of Europe and that some English painters...