First let's address some of the logical aspects to this communications challenge, which is largely a timing and verb tense problem, then we will address the other levels of the challenge to connect with voters when it comes to their economic realities heading into the fall election.
The questions about their attitudes to students were similar for both groups with appropriate modifications to the tenses of verbs to fit the timing of the questionnaire.
Mr. Ulbricht is the lead gnome; his virtues of brilliant articulation and timing are undercut by his coarse, tense line.
"It was recognized that this was a tense geopolitical moment," Mr. Featherman said of the timing of the Detroit survey, which began a year ago and is mostly financed by the Russell Sage Foundation.
Exhibiting perfect timing, Mr. Berends has his camera on a tense young man at the moment the baby's first cry is heard.
This didn't particularly surprise me, even though, given that European leaders have been engaged in tense negotiations to avoid the collapse of their common currency, the timing was particularly bad.
FIDE have made similar announcements in the past without them coming to fruition; while the timing of the announcement in the midst of a tense presidential election campaign may not be entirely accidental.
Disagreements over the timing of the changes also resulted in a particularly tense conversation on Christmas Eve between Steven P. Jobs, the chairman and chief executive of Apple, and Rolf Schmidtheoltz, the chairman of Sony Music.
Referring to the tense negotiations with Congress, a senior Treasury official said, "It was a question of tactics and timing, not the target".
Chuck in the timing: it occurred just as deadlines began to loom at the end of a tense, but inconclusive day.
