Word: tepidity
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...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...
...fair, the Democrats' near inchoate indignation is understandable. Bush has got us into a real mess in Iraq. Despite last week's tepid support from the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. will not be receiving very much military or financial aid from the world because there is continuing outrage over America's unilateral decision to go to war. The original casus belli was, at the very least, oversold. The post-Saddam period has been marked by American arrogance and incompetence. The prognosis for Iraq is grave. It is not even clear that the three main ethnic and religious groups...
...Senator John Edwards (D-NC), who has courted the youth vote, has generated a tepid response from college voters, Chavez said...