Word: toning
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While St. Martin’s commissioned a report in 2001 that questioned the tone of Let’s Go’s student-focused guides and recommended the company undergo a rebranding, Avalon is taking a more sanguine view of the series’ prospects...
Melhem, long a vocal critic of U.S. Middle East policy, says he was touched by Obama's conciliatory tone and references to his Muslim roots. "You can feel the authenticity about him," he says. "The interview was his way of saying, 'There is a new wind coming from Washington.' Barack Obama definitely sees the world differently from a man named George W. Bush...
...each day, testing the squad’s toughness.“As a team, everyone was playing with intensity and competing hard every match,” said Clayton, who was sidelined with a rotator cuff injury. “[The schedule] was tiring, but it set the tone for the team for the rest of the season.”With its top player out and sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien hampered by illness, the Crimson found its stride early and benefited from particularly strong play by junior Mike Hayes. The third-year player stayed locked in through...
...soon-to-be-defunct address on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue was perfect for the tone of classy depravity that the magazine tries to project and that made it acceptable to a more sophisticated type of reader who might otherwise be embarrassed to be associated with porn. This is not about the objectification of women, it said, it's about harmless fun. And some good journalism. But with the anonymity and impermanence of the Internet (no more telltale boxes of magazines under the bed), there's less appetite for Playboy's now almost coy-seeming nudity. A girlie magazine located...
Geithner's rhetoric before the Senate raises the question: Is the less confrontational approach now history? The short answer: in tone, perhaps. But in substance, not a whole lot is likely to change. The young Treasury Secretary-designate knew the "manipulator" line would get a lot of attention, as it has. So the tone is already different. Further, though Beijing may not know this yet (and will be mortified to learn), some senior economic officials in the new Administration have made it plain that they have little use for SEDs. Some view them as pointless, time-consuming gabfests that accomplished...