Word: lukewarmness
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While Faculty approval of the Committee was not required for establishment of the Foundation, the Faculty debated the proposal in March and gave it generally lukewarm support...
...that, through a combination of luck and also good training, the House of Windsor has continued to produce persons who mirror the national virtues." Adds Politics Professor Richard Rose of Scotland's University of Strathclyde: "There are those who are positive about the monarchy, and those who are lukewarm. There aren't many anti people." Especially now, when the prevailing wedding fever seems to have raised the public temperature way past lukewarm. Indeed, a survey published last week in the liberal Guardian showed that a resounding 76% of those polled felt the advantages of the monarchy outweigh...
There are parts aplenty. In the Senate waits Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, who is barely lukewarm to Reagan's tax plan, and Louisiana's Russell Long, the committee's ranking Democrat. Long and his House counterpart, Barber Conable of New York, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, do not command enough votes to pass a tax bill, but both have the power to grease, or gum up, the works. Long has said, only half in jest, "I think every Senator should have at least one amendment" to the tax measure...
...Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.) is a small and loose-knit group that is not nearly as well organized as its troublesome Gaullist coalition partner, the Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.). Chirac, who polled a respectable 18% in the first round of the presidential voting, gave Giscard only a lukewarm endorsement in the second round. Post-election analysis indicates that only 75% of Chirac's supporters cast their votes for Giscard. The R.P.R. defections made a critical difference...
Afterward, however, Chirac offered only lukewarm support to Giscard...