Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undeniably, Detroit's woes are acute. So far, consumer reaction to its new small cars has been tepid. In October, Chrysler's sales were 6% above a year ago on the strength of its K-cars. But Ford was off 20%, despite the debut of its Escort and Lynx subcompacts, and slipped an additional 8.5% in early November...
Unfortunately, Ian was intent on proving that even "sensitive" songwriters can rock and roll, and ran through several tepid compositions from her last LP, Night Rains. Worse, Ian turned over the spotlight several times to her guitarist, Scott Zito, whose cliched rock star showboating was difficult to endure. Ian went through a ficult to endure. Ian went through a few of the motions herself, essaying an awkward leap or two in her high heels...
...four print people signed by ABC, is worth listening to any time. On NBC's morning Today show, Syndicated Columnist David Broder Sand the Washington Star's Jack Germond provided their usual informed analysis, but the ballyhooed commentary by Independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson was tepid...
...technology, subjects the paper tended to neglect in the past. The lower left-hand corner is reserved for short, sprightly yarns; one last week cheekily examined the rich man's version of the box radios so popular with street people. The new page even has a rather tepid corporate gossip column called "Shop Talk" (who is on the fast track at General Motors and similar tidbits). Despite a year's preparation, the first week of the second front did not give readers a clear idea of what kinds of stories to expect...
...problems, predicting that the inflation rate will go down beginning this summer and claiming, very dubiously, that he had started an energy program "more ambitious than the space program, the Marshall Plan, and the interstate highway program combined." But his unexciting delivery moved the audience to only tepid applause, and once his 17-minute talk was over, the people rapidly dispersed...