Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson set the tone of the game quickly. Harvard held the ball in the UMass half for the vast majority of the first 45-minute period, and the Minutewomen seemed content to defend and simply try to prevent their opposition from scoring. This translated into many Harvard chances and a slower game, with little end-to-end play...
Which is why Clinton must move quickly to set the tone. "There is going to be a tension between getting bipartisan reform and fending off investigations," said Al From, who heads the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist group Clinton helped found. "It's very important that Clinton move early to draw Republican and centrist Democrats in, work from the center out and build a broad coalition around reform. If he lets the thing deteriorate into partisanship, it will be a lot more bitter and a lot less productive...
...Hello, Baby Bells. Competition calling. The combination of MCI's hell-bent-for-market-share moxie and BT's muscle--Concert will have a cash flow of $12 billion--could wreak havoc in local markets, and that could be good news for anyone with a dial tone...
...Ulrich complained about a demand from black workers for recognition of Kwanzaa, the black holiday, saying, "I'm still having trouble with Hanukkah." In one especially offensive passage, Ulrich carped that "niggers" were causing too much trouble. Tellingly, not one of the participants objected to the tone or substance of the talk. That, says psychologist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, is typical behavior among bigots who have no fear that their outrageous conduct will ever be known to the world outside their racist cocoon. "As a bona fide member of the Caucasian club...
...believing that Reich has had to sacrifice. If we consider him blessed, it is because the pain of his sacrifice is small compared to the magnitude of his blessing. If you listen carefully though, there is an undercurrent in Reich's article that makes this whole question of tone seem preposterous...