Word: lukewarm
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Nonetheless, a consensus exists that women who are already at risk for breast cancer should probably drink less. Will such a lukewarm warning have any effect on behavior? Probably not. Interviewed in a Washington singles bar, Therese Gallagher, 23, a student from New York City, said she would continue to down six drinks weekly. "I don't think about the bad things in life until something happens," she explained. If she drinks wine, though, she may not have to worry: the Harvard study found an increased risk of breast cancer only for beer and hard liquor...
...already made a deal with Hussein, committing the Labor Party to a territorial compromise over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as the price of Jordan's participation. Peres will travel to Washington next week to see Secretary of State George Shultz. The Reagan Administration has been lukewarm about an international conference, but American diplomats in the region have sought dutifully to mediate a workable plan. The last thing Washington wants is to be pitched into the midst of a political battle royal...
...Senate minority leader in 1978, Baker earned the enmity of the right, including Ronald Reagan, for supporting the treaties ceding U.S. control over the Panama Canal. As majority leader during Reagan's first term, Baker labeled the President's supply-side economic proposals "a riverboat gamble" and was lukewarm toward proposals to ban abortion and require prayer in schools. Nevertheless, he loyally proclaimed himself the President's "spear carrier" in the Senate and helped push through his sweeping tax cuts. "My approach with the President is very straightforward and direct," he said. "We communicate easily...
Expecting lukewarm effervescence, my throat was searingly ambushed by a bitter rush of vodka. As phlegm and blood spewed from my esophagus, the Dinosaur guffawed at his own ingenuity. "Haaaaah, got you dude...
When Yugoslavia's Yugo invaded the U.S. in 1985, Americans got their first chance to test the workmanship of a Communist automaker. The reaction so far has been lukewarm, but now another East European country is preparing an assault on the U.S. market. Auto-Dacia, Rumania's state-run car company, plans to introduce its Oltcit, Aro and Dacia models this spring. That could start a price war among comrades. The Oltcit, a three-door hatchback, will go for $3,980 -- $10 less than the cost of a Yugo...