Word: toning
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Although his tennis pro wife Marcia probably got a kick out of the Times article, it is doubtful that Carlucci found it so funny. Despite the tongue-in-cheek tone, the reporter nonetheless was implying that a man's misbehavior on the tennis court might offer some insight into his possible performance in office...
Beyond these factual misrepresentations. Nordhaus's article also seems substantially misleading in its tone, which seems to suggest that OCS administration of the fellowships process is incompetent, inadequte, and even conspiratorial. We read, for example, that faculty and House fellowships officers (HFOs) have complained about the working of this "small, exclusive and highly secretive committee." The Selection Committee is by definition small and exclusive--it consists of all HFOs, the OCS Fellowships Director and, as of this year, the Dean of the College and members of the faculty...
...that it be presented with a sense of proportion. Joe Biden's plagiarized material and his inaccurate description of his law-school standing pass the relevance test for a number of reasons, including his claim to high idealism. But the disclosures were so heavy in volume and derisive in tone that they became the defining facts about a candidate who was still little known to most voters. By contrast, when the Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Robertsons married ten weeks before their son was born, the information was contained in two sentences midway through a long profile, where...
...Government $150 billion by the year 2000. "It would have meant $3 a week less" for Social Security recipients, said Peterson. "I don't believe that millions of nonpoor elderly, with pensions and all the other things, would have objected to that difference." But Ronald Reagan set the tone at the outset by announcing that everything except Social Security would be on the table. "When we talk about it in those meetings, we don't say 'Social Security,' " Senator Robert Dole told reporters. "We say 'the unmentionable...
Legislators too are getting into the act. In the House of Representatives a measure has been introduced that would reimpose formal commercial-time strictures on kids' shows. A Senate bill would require the networks to run at least seven hours a week of educational programming for children. The tone of some lawmakers has grown combative. Says Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts: "What was once called a vast wasteland is now more accurately dubbed a vast waste dump...