Word: lukewarms
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...here, the Bush administration confronts its greatest weakness in the current battle - the absence of Muslim allies whose support is anything more than lukewarm. They may be prepared to offer military bases and indispensable intelligence cooperation, but most have been ambiguous in the support of the U.S. campaign, denouncing terrorism but also expressing wariness over military action in Afghanistan. Having Christopher Ross elegantly rebut bin Laden in Arabic may be an improvement, but he needs help. And just as America is depending in large part on the Northern Alliance to fight the ground war in Afghanistan...
...anxious as the country is over anthrax, the isolated outbreaks are only a lukewarm version of what a true infectious-disease hot zone would look like. Because anthrax is rarely contagious, the exposures to the bacteria have been well contained. But with other agents, that may not be so easy. Smallpox in particular has public health officials concerned. Since 1980, when the World Health Organization declared that the disease had been eradicated, the world's population has not been vaccinated. The U.S. ended routine immunizations in 1971, and even for those who got the shots as children, the vaccine...
Although many students had hot, or at least lukewarm, water by Wednesday evening, some were still without hot water Saturday...
Shivering students have complained since Tuesday morning of highly variable water temperatures in Eliot House showers and sinks, ranging from cold to lukewarm...
...Sitting in Annenberg—35 percent: The knowledge that Domna’s bark was worse than her bite and that there would always be a lukewarm chickwich waiting lulled my blockmates and I into spending hours at Annenberg getting worked up about the work we didn’t do, going back for more pink lemonade and flashing our newly minted Harvard status with ridiculous conversation. “Obviously, beer is a food and not a drug, you idiot. It’s made out of barley...