Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue is the fact that the preconcert publicity neglected to mention that the Living Stones are a Christian rock band. Perhaps the tone of his letter would have been quite different if instead the Living Stones had decided to push environment issues, battered women's awareness, or a multicultural student center...
What really deserves to be questioned, though, is Deng Xiaoping's "one country, two systems" plan for the the co-existence of China's socialism and Hong Kong's capitalism within one national boundary. "One country, two systems" has set the tone of China's policy toward Hong Kong for a long time. China has had to assure Hong Kong of its own future. It has felt it necessary to give confidence to the millions of Hong Kong residents to whom Deng gave his famous guarantee that Hong Kong's autonomy would remain for 50 years after 1997. This promise...
...arts is just another ploy, a set piece, to rehabilitate his standing in the public eye after the ethics ruling. The Democratic White House seems to share this view. Indeed, White House spokesman Michael D. McMurry reduced Gingrich's attack to a "charm offensive." There is the tone throughout of "business as usual." Yet, there is something asymmetrical about the Times's coverage. While the piece seems slanted against Gingrich, it is Gingrich's arguments--not the art-lovers'--which get voiced. Author Jerry Gray quotes Gingrich: "This is not about money, this is about an elite group who wants...
...public interest in the arts. This is done with some success in the founding legislation of 1965. Unfortunately even the best of the arguments listed there, in section two of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-209), suffer from a pandering tone...
...once popular Malibu family sedan with both headroom and horsepower to spare. From Oldsmobile there is the Intrigue, a new nameplate for an elegantly tailored four-door sedan that, its chief designer says, "looks like a car dressed in a Chanel suit." From Pontiac, there is a two-tone macho minivan for suburbanites who still lust for the fast lane. From Saturn, the EV1, a noiseless, all-aluminum electric vehicle. From Cadillac, Catera, GM's first Euro-American entry, designed to take on such young luxury imports as the BMW-3s and Lexus ES300...