MCI WorldCom Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers tried a folksier spin on Esrey when announcing his company's proposed $ 129 billion merger with Sprint in October.
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Copland explored Neo-Classicism and serialism, but he remained a neo-Romantic at heart, revisiting his folksier style, if only in passing.
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More often, however, John Coolidge remembered his father, who died in 1933 at 60, as considerably folksier and wittier than many perceived him.
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"As a dealer, I am concerned, too, " said Vandekar, whose booth is folksier than it has been in past years.
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It also plays some folksier Beatles cuts, some early Elton John, and a wealth of one-hit wonders and obscure or semi-obscure artists.
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A new national magazine hopes to succeed by filling a void for weekly and small daily newspapers looking for an affordable, folksier alternative to Parade and USA Weekend.
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But the emphasis has shifted to folksier, more intimate activities like canoe trips, walking tours, Shakespeare in the Park, softball games and pottery-painting parties.
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In fulfilling this mission, Rutter has his cast discard the rounded, heroic tones of Olivier and Gielgud for the folksier, vernacular accents and cadences of Northern England.
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With an edge in national polls and a folksier approach to campaigning, Al Gore's political team believes he has stopped his slide in the Democratic presidential contest.
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Lollapalooza all but ignored these trends _ which only made the women's festival, Lilith Fair, and the folksier H . O . R . D . E . more attractive.
