Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that would risk damaging the oilfields by reducing the underground pressure. Electric utilities that could do so would have to convert from burning oil to coal-at the cost of more pollution. Highway speed limits would be lowered to 50 m.p.h.; motorists would be required to get regular engine tune-ups and would be encouraged to form car pools...
...Lord, let me know mine end. The Greene was almost funereal in quality and was lent a somber cast by the walking bass throughout the movement. The exceptional quality of the Choir's string accompanists was evident in their first entrance: they were even in their attack and in tune without the dead quality that comes from intonation obsession. The soprano soloists were well-matched and in good balance with the rest of the ensemble...
Kenneth Hoffman ("Concerto Program at Kirkland," Oct. 17 Crimson) does Robert Portney a serious injustice in gratuitously assuming that Portney held a "cavalier attitude toward [the] audience." Instruments will fall out of tune, especially when it's very hot, and in my view Portney's decision to stop and tune in the cadenza (where a pause matters far less than in the body of the piece) showed not disdain for the audience, but consideration for its members' ears...
...blame for his troubles. Instead of prudently issuing separate rulings on the merits of the suit and the size of the damages, he had attempted to settle the case all at once. In his original ruling, Christensen figured that certain "predatory" practices by IBM had damaged Telex to the tune of $117.5 million, a figure that he then tripled in accordance with antitrust law. But in this rush to judgment, he ruefully admitted last week, he had underestimated a crucial factor: much of Telex's potential business came from marketing disc drives and other "peripheral" computer components based...
Blue Aquarius has a full and polished sound but all told, it's not a very good band. The Guru's got a catchy tune, but the words don't mean a thing...