Word: tepidity
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...true that this fall's record-breaking warm temperatures have led to sluggish fall and winter clothing sales. They have been so slow, in fact, that many retailers have already started their holiday price-cutting to get rid of the excess sweaters and coats. Due to tepid results the last two Christmas seasons, Wal-mart is determined to get a jump on sales. They reduced prices on toys in September and then slashed them again on 15,000 additional items in October, a 20% increase over last year. By November they were offering the kinds of deals usually reserved...
...while before many of them do. Jones successfully lobbied for a $250,000 pilot program, the Oakland Green Jobs Corps, but tepid public support elsewhere has kept green employment from taking off. Still, the promise is real. A study by the Cleantech Network, which tracks green investment, found that for every $100 million in green venture capital, 250,000 new jobs could be created. To speed that transition, Jones and Majora Carter of the Sustainable South Bronx in New York City recently launched Green for All, a campaign to secure $1 billion in government funding to train a quarter-million...
...Bonds faced a tepid market for his services even before his indictment. What sane general manager would want him now? "When you look at his age and what he is facing related to the indictment, I seriously doubt that Barry Bonds will ever play again," says former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Fred Claire. "It's a sad way for a career of great accomplishments to come...
...rise of Islamic fundamentalism have been fostered by a U.S. policy of supporting Musharraf over the unpredictability of a true democratic process. Rather than forcing Musharraf to seek consensus, and thus enable a representative civilian government that would support him in his campaign against extremism, the U.S.'s tepid response to Musharraf's "coup" has only exacerbated his inability to effect change, critics argue. "The amazing part was the lukewarm reaction of Condoleezza Rice," fumed Haider. "What nonsense that was. They should have registered outright contempt. These extra-constitutional measures by General Musharraf are not in the interest...
...Perhaps the real reason behind campuses’ discomfort with Islamo-Fascism Week lies less in Horowitz or other pundits’ undistinguished leadership credentials than in academia’s only tepid support for free speech itself...