Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Malecon after Castro's fall as an endless vista of shiny, neon-lighted fast-food joints. The crumbling, once graceful seafront is still a long way from that plastic vision. Potuombo gestures at the crowd in his cafe, who are placidly consuming not Whoppers or Big Macs but the tepid brown soda that is the sole item on his depleted menu. "These are the real Cubans," he proclaims. "These are the people who will defend the revolution despite the limitations of the moment...
Roger Altman probably knew his days were numbered when Bill Clinton issued a tepid, one-sentence endorsement of his college chum and campaign fund raiser. In a statement released by Treasury chief Lloyd Bentsen last Monday, Clinton said, "I believe that Roger Altman has been an excellent Deputy Treasury Secretary, and we want him to continue in that capacity." In Washington, where what isn't said is often more important than what is, those less than bracing words of support could have another translation: "Pack your bags...
...UNITED STATES OF AMERIca and I -- managed to get the World Cup kicked off all right last Friday in Chicago. Bolivia, grateful just to be in competition on the tepid shores of Lake Michigan, kept the Cup-holding Germans to a single goal before a crowd of 63,117 gathered in a great, poured-concrete tureen called Soldier Field. At the half, the temperature broke upon your cheek, hot enough for the back of a wristwatch to singe, and I, the only blue eye among distinguished Asian bleacher mates, remarked that someone could stir us and call us shabu-shabu...
Sixty-four percent of the class feels "very favorable" about its Harvard education today. Opinion is a bit more tepid about "Harvard today": 34 percent are "very favorable," and 32 percent are "somewhat favorable...
Clinton could impose each of these measures unilaterally, but there's no evidence yet that he is even considering such actions. Assuming, then, that the latest tepid sanctions fail, Clinton will face two other choices. He could do nothing, which would allow the carnage to continue. Or he could invade...