Word: temperedness
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"Of course, I think it's wonderful," Frieda T. Fan '93 said. "Wow, I really don't know what I can say about that, besides it's good news." But every statement of optimism or happiness was tempered with skepticism.
But Northeastern Coach Don McKenney's praise for his netminder was tempered by a large issue: whether or not Cole can sustain that high level of play in the Huskies' key games down the stretch.
"We don't think Harvard is up to making a woman president," says Marshall I. Goldman, an economics professor at Wellesley (and associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center). "Our concerns are tempered by that." Wellesley President Nanerl Keohane is also a candidate for the Harvard job.
Sobchak's troubles illustrate what has gone wrong with the grass-roots revolution last March that swept Communists out of power in industrial centers across the U.S.S.R. He took office eager to press ahead with plans to create a free economic zone in Leningrad that would attract Western capital. But...
Perhaps my trust in "faceless bureaucrats" will never win me a seat on the council, or worse yet, a dinner with Ralph Nader. If so, these are the bitter pills I must swallow for a tempered resistance to misapplied democracy. No doubt, Tocqueville would have agreed.