Word: lukewarmness
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During the primary season, Kerry focused heavily on boosting education funding and seemed lukewarm about measures President Bush had put in place stressing school accountability and student testing. But last week on his education tour, Kerry was emphasizing teacher performance. In exchange for ramping up salaries and training and mentoring programs, Kerry would make it easier for schools to fire incompetent teachers. He would also require new ones to pass rigorous tests and tie some rewards for teachers to their students' test scores. Those are not the sorts of things teachers' unions tend to favor. When Kerry spotlights his health...
...wartime. However, to dismiss the inhumanities as an inevitable reality of warfare, or to distract attention away from them by enforcing positive aspects of the military, is to ignore the gravity of the issue. Only recently, under the pressure of heightened public scrutiny, did President Bush exchange his previously lukewarm expressions of regret for a more sincere apology. Yet the damage has been done; no words can redeem the atrocity or compensate for the attitude of negligence his callous words revealed. Looking out for the American troops isn’t enough; it only takes one photograph of the receiving...
...Time/CNN poll asked 1,005 adult members of the general public how well they thought “things are going in the country these days.” Fifty-one percent said they thought that things were going very or fairly well. Well, well! Fear not, for the lukewarm public has spoken...
...could have been a sad landscape indeed, but Harvard rap group Tha League made sure that the set of their first music video was not crowded with lukewarm Milwaukee beers and broken typewriters, but $60,000 Arriflex-SR3 16mm cameras, professional lighting and state of the art sound equipment...
With his latest solo album, Shadows Collide With People, John Frusciante presents convincing evidence that he is the brains behind the glory of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Where his previous solo outings have been difficult, lo-fi affairs greeted with lukewarm receptions, Shadows is a glorious, epic album by an artist at the peak of his powers. Frusciante’s voice, distinctively thin and with a soulful, lustrous falsetto, is finally strong enough to carry the weight of his songwriting talent, which has never been greater...