Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...triumph of the Hollywood crowd in the White House leads Brooks to admit that "compared with the people who now set the tone for the Clinton administration, let's face it, those Ivy League meritocrats look like the Founding Fathers." Poor Richard Nixon--the godfather of conservative resentment of the Eastern Establishment--must be spinning in his grave...
This final sequence would set the tone for the sudden death overtime period, which seemed like one prolonged gasp from fans...
Mukunda also attacks the critical tone of U.S. historical scholarship. This is a serious misunderstanding of history as a discipline: we are engaged in the practice of critical thinking, investigation and argumentative scholarship. I believe that the critical eye of historians serves the ideals of democracy and equality much better than some antiquated "city on a hill" image of the United States...
Stewart argues that the council can only draw a wider range of candidates by improving its image among students. For now, the leadership will have to set the tone...
...fine, and I think Bug's Life will come out and do fine," he says. But Disney and Pixar apparently are not speaking with one voice on this topic. In fact, Jobs has irked his Disney partners by speaking to reporters without consulting them. Roth has asked Jobs to tone down his anti-DreamWorks rhetoric, without much luck. Jobs declines to comment...