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For something like the sixth time in a month, a businessman I was talking to had just declared, in the tones of someone stating a profound insight, that the modern world economy no longer has room for scores of different national currencies--that the inexorable logic of globalization will soon force most countries to adopt the dollar, the euro, or the yen as their means of exchange.
The disputes took on the tones of class struggle.
It's Flek who gives Joseph his reading list, even as he warns him of the futility of his quest in oracular tones:
At work between herself and us there wasA new principle of social awkwardnessAnd skillfulness required of each of us.Our tones of voice in this easy conversationWere instruments of marvelous finesse,Measuring and maintaining with exactitude"The fact or condition of the differenceThere was between us, both in space and time."
They invariably dial by the pulse method; although it is certainly technically feasible to arrange for them to dial with tones, nobody has figured out why anyone would want to do so.