Word: lukewarms
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...academic exercises should cease after 1 p.m. on January 15. That has been a sham for two reasons. One is that few events, if any are ever scheduled in the afternoon anyway--especially during reading period--so the practical impact is minimal. The other is that, because of strenuously lukewarm endorsement, professor have had little remorse about setting up lectures or review sections on that day anyway. If Congress proceeds to pass the bill, Harvard should immediately follow suit. But even if the federal government fails to act, University officials should establish the memorial as soon as they reconvene...
...titillating hope that it is a keyhole drama. Sad to say, Liz and Dick are almost as inept at playing themselves as they are at re-creating Coward's characters. All passion spent, they seem blankly disaffected, otherwise engaged. The chemistry between them is about as combustible as lukewarm tea, though their quarrels raise ghostly, vulgarized echoes of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...affect other environmental legislation, spurring Congress to reauthorize a passel of environmental measures that have lapsed and strengthen clean-air-and-water laws this session. Says Republican Senator John Chafee, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: "This Administration will not want to be portrayed as lukewarm on the environment any more. That is the positive fallout...
President Reagan last eight formally proposed a new form of tax shelter for parents of college students, but the plan received only a lukewarm reception from officials at Harvard and spokesmen for national association representing higher education...
...M.I.T graduate and confessed computer "nerd" since his teens in Philadelphia, and an M.I.T. buddy, Bob Frankston, 33, worked day and night to develop a program for doing such number crunching on a small computer. The result was an electronic spread sheet: VisiCalc (visible calculator). Initially, VisiCalc got a lukewarm reception from computer stores. But when another B School grad, Daniel Fylstra, 31, who had just started up his own company, Personal Software Inc., stepped up the marketing, VisiCalc took off. Word began to get out about its enormous powers. With only a few presses of a computer...