Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoothest the group's sound gets is in the first single on the album, "Sad New Day." Acoustic guitars accompany tepid raps and a silly chorus...
...need for a nation-state to take the lead demonstrates the impotence of the current United Nations. This impotence was understandable during the Cold War, with the dominating and polarizing influence of NATO and the Warsaw Pact making only the most tepid action possible...
...voters' springtime flirtation with Ross Perot grew warmer last week, while their feelings about George Bush entered the frigid zone. Bill Clinton's wooing of the electorate still received a tepid reaction, though there were hints that the Democrat could ultimately elicit more passion...
...trajectory of an angry outsider. For one thing, he writes these days for Rolling Stone, a publication rarely confused with, say, the New Republic. Greider's stance also sets him apart from both Establishment toadies and partisan true believers, for he is a jaded idealist almost as disgusted with tepid reformers as he is with the hoard-the-wealth excesses of the Reagan and Bush administrations...
...Band, leading the parade since 1884. Conductors: Michael Eisner, Frank Wells. We work, while you whistle." In fact, Eisner, Disney's CEO, and Wells, the company's president, have headed the procession only since 1984, when they turned Mickey's mausoleum -- a slumbering empire of tranquil theme parks and tepid movies -- into Walt II. Or, rather, Walt 2, for Disney has expanded exponentially, its ambition and energy personified by the two bosses. At 4 a.m. one day last week, each man could be seen wandering the park like a parent wrapping a beautiful new toy for his child on Christmas...