Word: lukewarm
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...whether they come for the duration of the campaign or for so-called "invasion weekends," these students share the same "sacrificial" experiences: 16-hour days, scut work, cramped living conditions, fast food diets, lukewarm parental support and, sometimes, politically close-minded canines...
...Katz make it sound as if most Black students in Sanders Theatre that night were applauding all of the racism that Jeffries is accused of. This is wrong on two counts--he didn't express his nastier views, and even some of the things he did say got a lukewarm reception from both races...
Wrong. The next morning, Franck's constructioncrew melts the snow off the tulips with a blowdryer. The swans are given lukewarm baths and aredeclared ready to go. Sure, a beautiful weddingrequires love, but it requires swans, too. Thismakes sense in a Franckophilic world where theultimate badge of dishonor is a blue tuxedo, where"a commitment to traditional family values" costsnearly $150,000, where the ultimate moral maladyis an inability to "let go." Poor people can'trelate to these values? Well, let them...
...trusted by party conservatives, he enjoys a reputation as a compromiser, a quality Bush badly wants in his platform chief. White House moderates are still hoping to include wording in the platform's preamble that would make it clear that the G.O.P. is "nonexclusionary" on the abortion issue. That lukewarm invitation will be cold comfort to pro-choice voters if Roe is gutted...
...cost of more than $1 billion, the future of Japan's HDTV program is far from clear. HDTV sets go for more than $30,000 each, which explains why fewer than 300 have been sold. While that price will inevitably come down, HDTV has generated only a lukewarm response in a country usually unable to resist new television technology...