Word: tepidity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...looking churlish and maladroit. The Tory comeback hit a speed bump. The BBC faced the worst crisis in its 80?year history. Its chairman, Gavyn Davies, resigned the day Hutton issued his brutal criticisms of the Beeb's journalistic practices and governing-board oversight, but offered an apology so tepid that Downing Street sought more. The next day the Director General, Greg Dyke, also resigned, but he too felt angry and denounced Hutton's conclusions, which many commentators were already calling a whitewash. The acting chairman, Richard Ryder, declared he had "no hesitation in apologizing unreservedly for our errors...
When Fatou Diome handed a copy of her first novel to her beloved grandmother in Senegal, the response was tepid. For the illiterate older woman, stories are something you tell, not write. "She's happy for me," Diome explains, "but she doesn't really understand." The French, however, know a literary sensation when they see one. Le Ventre de l'Atlantique (The Belly of the Atlantic), a bittersweet account of immigration and exile, is currently at the top of the French best-seller lists. The French daily Le Figaro gushed: "There are a thousand clichés about immigration...
...Administration has often been faulted for its tepid relationship with the United Nations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Conservatives are understandably wary of the organization, mostly because of its record of inefficiency, but also due to its history of allocating money for the regimes in Iran and North Korea. Yet if the aforementioned legislation is approved, Washington will give some $550 million to the U.N. Global Fund. The Administration has even sent Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to lobby African business leaders to support the program (which Thompson now chairs...
...been there. But now I find myself living here, and like a character in a tepid romantic comedy, my own scorn has blossomed into affection. I come not to bury New Haven but, oddly enough, to praise...
...make certain that Volkswagen lives up to its new image," he said in September. Considering how tough the U.S. luxury market is, that's an understatement. VW's challenge is to get more Americans to view it as a People's Car for the rich. And Phaeton's tepid European performance suggests it might also be a tough sell to status-conscious Yanks. Frank Maguire, vice president of sales and marketing at Volkswagen of America, admits it is "a real marketing challenge. The perception of the brand and the product don't match." Can VW get groovin' again? Investors seem...