Word: lukewarmness
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...Socialist Party. Rome, Milan and Naples are without mayors because of the scandal. Three Cabinet Ministers tainted by association have stepped down. Prime Minister Giuliano Amato was reduced last week to arguing that just being under criminal investigation should not oblige a public official to quit. Amato won a lukewarm vote of confidence from Parliament last Thursday, but the scandal may yet consume his eight-month-old government...
...School has already seen one tenured professor move on to the Clinton administration--with less-than-lukewarm indications of returning--and may lose another renowned scholar in Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe...
...military matters are best disposed by him and that anything else is an attempt to railroad the Pentagon bureaucracy. But Clinton tapped Aspin to deal with Nunn in part because relations between the Senator and the President have never been great. The ( White House has not forgotten Nunn's lukewarm effort on behalf of Clinton during the Georgia primary last year, nor his sudden disappearance from a scheduled campaign swing with Hillary Clinton a few days after the Gennifer Flowers story broke...
...pleased with the effort made by some of the wrestlers," Peckham said, a lukewarm statement if there ever...
...tough Senate confirmation hearing at 9:30 p.m. Thursday insisting she would not withdraw her name as Attorney General-designate. By midnight she had changed her mind: criticisms of her admittedly illegal hiring of undocumented Peruvians as servants had grown quite heated, and presidential support had turned decidedly lukewarm. In an exchange of letters released by the White House at 1:22 a.m. Friday, Bill Clinton accepted her pullout "with sadness." Feminist groups immediately began pressing Clinton to name another woman to the job, but a spokesman said the President would not necessarily...