Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Recapitulating seven years in 26 pictures isn't really possible," observes TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin, who helped set up the presentation, which was sponsored by Nikon, the Japanese camera manufacturer. "But by mixing photos of the major events and those of people who set the tone," adds Drapkin, "we've been able to capture the essence of the period...
...have dialed is not accepting your call at this time" -- whenever someone on the list tries to get through. Jeffrey Lipman, 35, a pharmacist in Harrisburg, Pa., has combined call blocking with another feature, known as distinctive ringing, which signals calls from selected numbers by trilling with a special tone. Now he can be sure to take calls from local hospitals and nursing homes -- his biggest customers -- while screening out those from certain pharmaceutical salesmen. Cost: $7 a month for these and two other features...
Ozawa shrugs off criticism that he is culturally unsuited to some repertoires: "Once, as an encore after a recital in Japan, Feuermann played a Japanese tune -- pentatonic, with delicate quarter-tone shadings. Everyone said it was the best performance of that melody in history." Yet Japanese performers, educators and critics admit that the lack of real comprehension is the greatest hindrance to Japanese musicians' acceptance in the West. Students too are often taught to emulate their sensei (teachers) rather than to think for themselves. Perhaps it is no contradiction that Saito's most flamboyant pupil is also his staunchest admirer...
...specific policy but with individual statements of his," Fineran said. "In his Innaugural Address in 1984 Flynn said his administration would not tolerate racial hostility. For a white Irish Catholic to be willing to say that means a lot to the public. It has set a very good, positive tone...
...monitoring orthodoxy. Said West Germany's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the congregation, at a Rome press conference: "What is technologically possible is not also morally admissible." The document is being termed "Ratzinger's catechism" because of its substantial use of a question-and-answer format. Clinical in tone, the text bears the title Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions...