"No amount of hot rhetoric will get the economy back on track," he said.

We need less hot rhetoric and more open conversation, less malice and more charity.

Friday's killings at two clinics here and the shooting in Norfolk, Va., this morning came in the midst of a surge in hot rhetoric by the most extreme abortion opponents.

It is doubtful if ever in his life he was to be more forceful than in the hot rhetoric of "Hey, fellows, do you want to look like college men or town muckers?

Leading the liberal opposition to the bill, Mr. Matsui accused Administration officials of using "hot rhetoric" to score political points at the expense of poor children.

"We need less hot rhetoric and more open conversation, less malice and more charity. . . . we have got to be a community again."

Khallid Muhammad is believed to be part of the Nation orthodoxy and is widely popular with its youngest members, who, as one former member put it, "like their rhetoric red hot."

But she will bring to the role her own particular style, replacing hot rhetoric with cool grace and humor.

A party official suggested that it used unnecessarily hot rhetoric to make its case.

Critics accuse the Administration of abandoning its moral goals in the face of pressure from American businessmen and hot rhetoric from the Chinese.