Third, the tone is so relentlessly bright that even the most laid-back reader may end up wanting to hurl the book into a pile of dirty laundry and retire to an unmade bed with a takeaway meal.

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Rebounding volumes in the railroad industry surely helped, but Spracklin is already looking ahead to management's tone on third-quarter earnings during Tuesday's conference call.

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Edwards set the tone, removing Shahid Afridi with the third ball of the day and then bowling Yasir Hameed for 12.

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On the charts, April gold futures are climbing higher for the third week in a row and are poised to head into early New York trading with a firm tone.

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But Freeman credited Craig Stammen with setting the tone for the game after replacing Strasburg, who strained his right oblique, to start the third.

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