Word: lukewarmness
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...four states are considering joining Maryland and New York in creating such a system. But the gun lobby has vowed to fight it, with N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre saying it is "another scheme that is gun registration masquerading as ballistics fingerprinting." The Bush Administration is lukewarm to the idea. Press secretary Ari Fleischer questioned the effectiveness of the technology two weeks ago and asserted, "In the case of the sniper, the real issue is values... The question is not new laws; the question is the actions here represent the values in our society." It was only after realizing...
...Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka had convinced the world that it could expect a set of proposals with real heft. But he, like so many before him, got mired in the morass of inertia and self-interest that is Japanese politics. Receiving lukewarm support from his boss Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Takenaka has buckled. At a press briefing last week, Takenaka called his plan 'a good start.' Who says the Japanese have no sense of irony...
Despite Harvard’s lackluster defensive performance in the later part of the second half, it’s been anything but lukewarm in recent games, shutting out four consecutive teams, including Ivy powerhouse Penn...
...White House complained that the president was taken out of context. But Bush’s comment would be offensive in any context. He effectively accused Senate Democrats—who have been as of yet lukewarm in their criticism of Bush’s foreign policy initiatives—of being irresponsible, uninterested and unpatriotic. Such an unfair characterization effectively cuts off debate by branding all those who legitimately question White House policy as un-American...
...channeled not into a call for probity but into an excuse for conduct he would declare unethical in a speech the next day. "He can't go where he needs to go," concedes an Administration official. "He is an insider, and he comes across as an insider offering only lukewarm populism...