Word: lukewarm
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...just 44% of Pakistanis are in favor of sending troops in to the tribal areas to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban. "The Pakistani people are not enthusiastic about Musharraf," says Steven Kull, director of the polling organization. "[They] do not support his recent crackdown on fundamentalists, and are lukewarm at best about going after al-Qaeda or the Taliban in western Pakistan. It appears that a U.S. strategy that rests on Musharraf being a frontline in the war on terrorism has poor prospects." And that's if Musharraf succeeds in holding on to power in the face...
...stars were aligned, and as the ninth inning wound down anticlimactically, I adopted a stoic attitude. The lukewarm champagne would be popped, the hoots and hollers would commence, and with the help of the relentlessly-advertised Cialis, as well as some surging testosterone from a World Series victory embellished by the Patriots Übermensch destruction of the Washington Redskins, many aging and rusty Bostonians would be getting lucky for possibly the first time since the Sox last won the Series (a paltry wait, in comparison to the 86-year drought that had preceded it). Drunken college students, and other...
...Which raises the question: If Musharraf's position is so tenuous, why is the U.S. so lukewarm to Sharif? Perhaps because the Bush Administration does not think he will ever be a serious contender for power. "His popularity is linked not to what he is but what he represents," says a State Department official. A senior Bush Administration official says Bhutto's party "has historically been more popular and closer to the moderate center than [Sharif's] party...
...ways: a sort of proud, sometimes sanctimonious right-on-sister enthusiasm from fellow gray-haired women or an equally proud, sometimes resentful don't-judge-my-choices-I-do-this-to-feel-good-about-me defensiveness in the comments of the committed-to-dyeing cohort. Hardly anyone was lukewarm in their reactions, which suggests to me we may have a contentious new baby-boomer argument over gray hair that is as mutually judgmental as the mommy wars between working and stay-at-home mothers was in the 1980s...
...destination of choice. He enthusiastically offers a lengthy and erudite lecture on the common values of liberty and opportunity that bind it to Britain. But asked about a recent private meeting with President Bush, his responses are determinedly evasive. When finally he cooks up an opinion, it's served lukewarm. "I believe the shared interest that is founded on shared values is a very potent foundation for all relationships in the future," he says...