Word: lukewarm
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...show West Europeans that Japan is no longer content with its traditionally low diplomatic profile. As the world's second largest trading power, Japan wants to be involved in the shaping of new relationships between the European Economic Community and the U.S. But the Europeans were at best lukewarm toward Tanaka's visions of a "more balanced triangle." In Paris, the first stop on Tanaka's itinerary, Georges Pompidou agreed to send the Mona Lisa to Tokyo and to cooperate with Japan in a uranium enrichment project, but at the same time, he let it be known...
...South America. Recent building projects that Crow has helped finance include the $150 million, 131-acre Park Central business and recreation center in North Dallas, Atlanta's $175 million Peachtree Center, San Francisco's Embarcadero Center (the last two with Atlanta Architect John Portman). Conservative and lukewarm toward the environmental movement, he attributes his success to a pragmatic "Sunday-school" philosophy of hard work, learning from mistakes and, above all, correctly anticipating real estate needs...
...Hong Kong has gone through an interesting metamorphosis: two years ago its food was generally lukewarm, usually greasy, and always mediocre. With its building renovation last year, however, came a renovation in food, and for a quick, relatively cheap Chinese meal, Hong Kong is now a good deal...
...called himself "a man God has turned inside out like a glove," and he had that infectious inner fire sometimes found in those who become adult converts to a great spiritual vision. He grew up in Paris, barely nourished spiritually on the lukewarm Protestantism of his mother. When he enrolled at the Sorbonne in 1901 during France's rich and corrupt Third Republic, rabid French anticlericalism had turned the church into an intellectual ghetto. At the school itself, a narrow-minded empiricism ruled out serious study of spiritual matters. One day, as Maritain walked hand in hand through...
STATE AND LOCAL legislators occasionally like to take pot shots at Harvard and its tax free status. Over the years the University's relationship with the Cambridge City Council has been lukewarm at best, and often downright cold. State lawmakers from the western part of Massachusetts resent Harvard's big-time stature, and welcome any opportunity to test the University's influence...