Word: lukewarms
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...release of Iranian assets. It calculates those to be worth far more than the amount unfrozen last week, including perhaps what it claims are $12 billion in weapons purchased from the U.S. but never delivered. So the Iranians' public response to the deal in the Hague was lukewarm. Perhaps leery of giving domestic hard-liners grounds to charge that the Islamic republic is negotiating with the Great Satan, Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Vaezi described the deal as a decision made by the Hague tribunal and not by Washington. "It has nothing to do with the U.S. Administration's goodwill...
Could George Bush imagine, even six months ago, that there would be a non- Communist government in Eastern Europe during his lifetime, much less his presidency? Probably not. Then why is his response so lukewarm to an ideological victory that his predecessors, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, could only dream about...
Herscu piled up debts of $1.4 billion building his trans-Pacific empire, then ran into trouble last year. Hooker, Australia's second largest home builder, has been hit by rising interest rates and sagging home sales in Australia, as well as lukewarm retail sales in the U.S. Herscu is now trying to sell off $750 million in assets, from Manhattan to Melbourne. Altman and Bonwit, meanwhile, are hoping to satisfy their creditors in time to sell some fall fashions...
...when students are widely accused of lukewarm activism, or worse, political apathy, we should hold contemporary activists tactics and the protests of 1969 up to a common standard--that of successes won and changes effected...
...They're like poets on the squash court--like [Lord] Byron and [Percy],Shelley and they're so different. They're like fire and ice. I feel like the team is somewhere in between--like lukewarm water," freshman Jeremy Fraiberg says...