Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storm rages over recruiting in the Ivies. Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti evoked inestimable emotion nine days ago when he called for tight restrictions on recruitment. But Harvard response could be characterized as tepid at hottest. President Bok said he sympathized with the the general thrust of Giamatti's proposals. And Fred Jewett, dean of admission and financial aid, said Giamatti's advocacy of limiting recruiting to on-campus visits was Harvard's traditional position--until two years...
...refused to join any alliance that did not also include Enrico Berlinguer's Communists. When the Christian Democrats last month ruled out any such deala reflection of stiffening anti-Communist public opinion in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistanthe Socialists withdrew their tepid support of Cossiga's minority government. Since then, however, Craxi has decided to switch rather than fight: exploiting a tilt to the right in his own party, he persuaded his central committee to back him in joining a government without the Communists. In exchange he is to have...
SPEAKING with the tepid fervor of a Calvinist who has repressed even the heat of his Puritanism, President Carter last Friday solemnly painted his own vision of how the nation can at last conquer inflation and recapture past economic glory. It is a narrow vision, with no bold initiatives to harness the energy and resources of the American people. Instead, it demands they submit passively to "pain" and "discipline." Fifteen times those dolorous syllables rolled from the President's pursed lips...
Evidence indicates that if Clark knew his government was about to fall, he did little to avert defeat. His External Affairs minister was absent on a mission; one Member of Parliament was vacationing in tepid Fiji; and the fringe Social Credit party, which held five seats, received no concessions to discourage them from abstaining. As Prime Minister, Clark had the prerogative to postpone the debate until his wayward part members returned or until the Social Credit members could be brought around. The seven affirmative votes would have avoided defeat; Clark exerted no such efforts...