Word: toning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...presumptive Democratic nominee's efforts to shuffle to the political center. As any Republican will tell you, the National Journal ranked Obama the most liberal member of the Senate. And in the primaries Obama took routinely liberal positions on all the major issues of the day. But in tone as well as in substance, Obama has started making the traditional general election move to the middle. His first television spot of the general election was biographical, focusing on his love of family and country, and highlighting his legislative efforts "to move people from welfare to work" and "cut taxes." Much...
...Bush Administration's troop surge may bolster McCain--who supports the effort--and neutralize the Iraq issue. In order to win, McCain must succeed where Hillary Clinton failed: by making Obama seem more like an ordinary politician than an inspiring leader. Obama's reversal on campaign financing and new tone on NAFTA, along with news that two Muslim women in headscarves were moved out of camera range at a rally, left the Democrat with one of the most off-message weeks of his campaign. By rejecting public funds, Obama is expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and spend...
...Boyer clan. Max raced around a visitors' room, occasionally hugging his mom and trying to pull his beloved granddad up from his chair. Mildly autistic and mildly retarded, Max doesn't speak much, and he didn't respond to my overtures. In addition, Max suffers from hyperactivity, low muscle tone, gastrointestinal problems and a tendency to spike scorchingly high fevers. Though he's doing fine in kindergarten--with an aide--he only recently managed to pass potty-training...
...Newsy answers - like the one in which he embraced the death penalty as a possible punishment for child rape - arrived in the same methodical, yet laconic tone he uses for boilerplate - like his explanation yet again why his about-face on public financing is not really a change...
...years ago, Einhorn stood up at a charity event and recommended shorting Allied Capital, a finance company that he was convinced was understating its loan losses. The company vehemently disagreed, igniting a long war that is the main subject of his book. But as Einhorn recounts in a tone of aggrieved righteousness in its pages, his greatest disappointment was with the financial media and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which instead of joining him in his crusade grilled him for conspiring to drive Allied's stock price down...