Word: tepidity
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...noise that enriches the experience. Students can choose from masseurs and masseuses, who employ a variety of relaxation techniques during any given session. UHS therapists target all the major points of tension, including upper and lower back, shoulders, neck and even hands, always providing a major upgrade from the tepid massages of roommates and lovers from days past...
...belated effort to raise Jiang's stature in the party pantheon is under way. "Glorious Jiang is the Core of Our Country's Future," intoned one recent newspaper editorial. Political acolytes are lobbying to enshrine Jiang's tepid ideology alongside Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, the hallowed manifestos that form the foundation of correct political thought in China. Getting anyone but scholars to pay attention to Jiang's national mission statement is a challenge. Few outside intellectual circles can name even one of the "Three Represents," his awkward effort to integrate modern capitalism with communist principles...
...preserve this music is to use it, and that is what the Roma are doing. As for Roma themselves, hearing the music is more than entertainment." The irony is that while gypsy music is being welcomed in the West, its following at home - among non-Roma - has been tepid at best. Indeed, it has been a difficult time for the Roma across Eastern and Central Europe. The end of generous state subsidies for this music eliminated a key source of support, and discrimination is still depressingly common from Romania to Slovakia, where Roma children are routinely sent to schools...
Honors are meant to distinguish between those students who are merely good and those who consistently have done work of the highest quality. The Staff’s tepid criticism of the Faculty’s proposal does not grasp the central purpose of honors and allows far too many students to earn them. Unlike grades, which can measure work on an absolute scale, honors are by necessity comparative. Although it is difficult to make comparisons between those who concentrate in history and literature and those who study physics, the Faculty continues to abdicate its responsibility for separating...
...adds, it's "irresponsible" to conclude that "the more profitable that stock investing has been in the past, the more profitable it must be in the future." Instead Dimson expects U.S. stocks to return a tepid 6% annually (after inflation, which is running at about 1%). That would be far below the 18% a year that stock investors reaped from 1990 through 1999. It's also fewer than 3 points above the returns on the safest bonds--not much of a reward for the added risk posed by stocks. So, says Dimson, investors may want about 40% of their assets...