Word: lukewarm
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Both magazines met with a lukewarm response when they tried to sell syndication rights to U.S. television networks for up to $600,000. After the news conference in Sao Paulo, moreover, Menachem Russek, the retired head of an Israeli police anti-Nazi unit, confessed that he was "not angry but disappointed" that Mengele had apparently died unregenerate and unpunished. Others were finding the Mengele myth equally difficult to abandon. "I admit to having hoped that Mengele would have been more intriguing than the other Nazi fugitives," acknowledged Archivist Posner. "A number of us had fantasies about a man living deep...
...apathy, our laziness in some cases, is the weak support by Harvard students of the Harvard Radcliffe Amnesty International (HRAI). Though the group is essentially apolitical and only attempts to prevent torture, political imprisonment, and other abuses which violate the United Nation's code, it has received only lukewarm support in its campus wide efforts for letter-writing campaigns. Last year, in attempting to secure the release of three political prisoners, HRAI initiated a campaign to send postcards signed by Harvard students calling for the leaders of the three countries involved to take action. Though they tabled at every house...
...March 1985). On Air Force drawing boards is the "Transatmospheric Vehicle" (TAV), more popularly known as the "space fighter," designed to take off from military bases and climb into orbit to search for enemy targets. Though the military helped persuade Congress to fund the space shuttle, the Pentagon is lukewarm about the shuttle's civilian uses. Military planners would prefer that Congress use the funds to build a new generation of heavy rocket boosters. The Pentagon's arguments include the usual one: the Soviets are already doing...
Though the fair was a big hit with Louisiana residents, it did not attract enough out-of-state visitors. The average daily attendance was only 36,866, about half the number needed to break even. The shortfall is being blamed on lukewarm press reviews, ill-conceived marketing efforts and expensive admission tickets ($15 for adults...
Their hopes are not to be, however, as all signs point to a landslide Domenici reelection. The Pratt campaign, hampered by inexperience and unable to get more than lukewarm support from moderate and conservative party brass, has not been able to get off the ground. Domenici, whose $2 million coffers outnumbers ten-times the Pratt treasury, is getting nearly 80 percent of the vote from all the pollsters...