11.   However, most people refuse to surrender to the negative tone that keeps the media humming.

12.   In corn futures, selling by farmers early in the day contributed to a negative tone.

13.   In Massachusetts, he said, the Senate race was quite clean compared to other states, but voters nonetheless complained of its negative tone.

14.   In surveys, many voters had expressed dismay with the negative tone of the campaign.

15.   In their faxes, Dodd and the advisory board decried the negative tone of some press reports about the Oak Brook, Illinois-based fast food company.

16.   Later, as he mingled with a lunchtime restaurant crowd in Concord, he asserted that responsibility for the negative tone of the campaign rests with Bradley.

17.   Michael Mayo, a bank stock analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, contributed to the negative tone.

18.   Ms. Messinger said she thought the mayor had set a negative tone earlier this month when he denigrated each of his potential opponents by name.

19.   Much is being made of their negative tone and the ever tougher messages delivered by telephone.

20.   Samaranch, who takes himself seriously, too seriously, was visibly agitated by the negative tone of the journalists.