Word: toning
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Harvard matched UConn (17-1-2) for most of the first half, but a goal in the final minute of the period set the somber tone for the rest of the game...
...abortions under Powell than under Clinton. Early in October, Bennett sent Powell articles on how to curtail abortions without a constitutional amendment. Some conservatives were quietly pleased last week when Powell, who had described himself as firmly pro-choice in September, took a more circumspect line. The change in tone is one reason why Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, rather than denouncing Powell, plans to press Gingrich, G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour and other Republican leaders into coaxing Powell farther to the right. That may not be easy. With a touch of defiance, Powell-the-pol argued last week that...
Albert said speakers at the rally may shift their tone a bit, to aim criticism more at the House, but that this was the primary intention in the first place...
...unilaterally trade away elements of Gingrich's revolution in the final days of congressional bargaining. The Speaker also anointed himself the Hill's master strategist and tactician. When the time came for Republicans to take a harder line toward Bill Clinton, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who set the tone. And when the time came to secure a powerful ally for the G.O.P.'s embattled overhaul of Medicare, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who cut the deal, by winning--some would say buying--the endorsement of the influential American Medical Association...
...stentorian tone seldom employed at presidential press conferences, Yeltsin excoriated reporters for predicting that the meeting would be a disaster. "Well, now for the first time I can tell you that YOU'RE a disaster," he said, sending a beet-red President Clinton into a such fits of laughter that took him nearly a minute to compose himself...