Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help at clinics, mental hospitals and homes for the aged. There is no word as yet on the fate of the long-promised revision of Stalin's laws. Cautions Alexander Ogorodnikov, an ex-prisoner and lay activist who ran a seminar on past persecution last week: "A positive tone can easily become negative again after the celebrations. What counts is what is written in law." A member of the Vatican retinue also warned, "There is no evidence that this process in the Soviet Union is irreversible. Everyone knows there is a struggle in the Kremlin, and no one is sure...
...President who set the tone and the theme, and he did it almost as soon as he stepped off Air Force One. After a brief opening ceremony on Sunday, Reagan began his first private meeting with Gorbachev by handing him a list of cases involving Soviet people who are being denied the right to leave the U.S.S.R. or, in the U.S. view, unjustly imprisoned. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater quoted him as telling Gorbachev that for Americans the issue of human rights "has pride of place" because they view it as being at the bottom of differences between the superpowers...
...schools and a program tailored to minority communities that have been hardest hit by AIDS. The chairman also suggested that the Surgeon General act as the Government's principal spokesman in health-care emergencies, with the authority to forge effective public policy speedily. As if to underscore the urgent tone of Watkins' draft report, the San Francisco department of public health and the federal Centers for Disease Control predicted last week, for the first time, that infection with the AIDS virus will almost certainly result in death unless effective treatments are found...
...raise our voices; it acknowledges that the meaning of our . discourse, as of any symphonic composition, lies not in the units but in the pauses, the pacing and the phrasing. Punctuation is the way one bats one's eyes, lowers one's voice or blushes demurely. Punctuation adjusts the tone and color and volume till the feeling comes into perfect focus: not disgust exactly, but distaste; not lust, or like, but love...
After a year when the council took up--only to later tone down--controversial campus debates, like a Mather senior's complaint against one of the nine all-male final clubs, council members say the next election could require candidates to devise a rudimentary political platform for election...