Word: lukewarm
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...Vice President Al Gore has decided that offense is the best tactic when it comes to campaign finance reform, putting forward a new system in which a $1.7 billion public-private endowment would provide every candidate with his or her total campaign funding. The plan, which was met with lukewarm support from the patron saint of campaign finance, John McCain, would get rid of the direct ties between private contributors, federal officeholders and the two political parties. "The views of the donor will have absolutely no influence on the views of the recipient," said Gore Monday of the proposal, which...
...even though the response in Washington has been lukewarm, Gore's proposal could serve him well on one front. He's managed to paint his opponent, George W. Bush, into something of a corner. After all, at this point, Bush's options are limited: He can scoff at Gore's proposal and risk looking like he's addicted to soft money, or he can try to capitalize on popular antipathy toward unregulated fund-raising and look like he's just following Gore's lead...
...After the event, while reporters and some of the attendees gathered at the United House of Prayer across the street from the Apollo, Professor Cornel West - one of the nation's foremost authorities on race relations - and the Rev. Al Sharpton discussed Bradley's lukewarm reception during the debate. "He just doesn't have the delivery," noted Sharpton. "It's a shame," said West. David Dinkins, who was New York's first black mayor, told TIME Daily: "I like Bradley, he's a good person, but I have to support the man who's got the best chance of getting...
...UMass, where four students have contracted meningitis over the last few years--two of them fatally--student interest in vaccination seems to be lukewarm...
...Fish bowl, former home to PTF (Patrick the Fish). Managing Editor Georgia N. Alexakis brought about the demise of this goldfish (a gift from her predecessor Andrew S. Chang) when she filled his bowl with cold, instead of lukewarm, water. GNA later replaced PTF with Andy and Warhol, named in FM's honor, but they died...