Word: tepidity
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After eight terms, Roukema is the senior Republican woman in the House and one of its most influential G.O.P. moderates. The American Conservative Union consistently gives her tepid ratings of just over 50%. A pro-choice environmentalist, her party's leadership nonetheless entrusts her with the chair of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee...
...pods, with most of the living space devoted to labs. Personnel sleep in curtained, closet-like enclosures at the end of one pod and exercise with their bodies bungeed into place on treadmills; when it comes time for a shower, they must get by with space shampoo and a tepid sponge bath. ("NASA has promised to hose her down before they give her back," quips husband Michael Lucid...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fresh from his tepid handshake with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Clinton for help in forging a peace with Syria during an hour-long Oval Office meeting Monday afternoon, telling reporters "the United States fully understands our position." That position is awkward. As the new player at the peace table, Netanyahu is finding it difficult to carve himself a different road to peace with his neighbors. He is determined to live up to his campaign vow to give paramount priority to Israeli security, while also carrying forward his predecessor...
...preposterously declared Dole's response "right on." Sensing disaster, Engler moved to end the torture and asked Dole to "wrap up." Unprepared, Dole said he would "yield my time" to others in the audience. When Engler tried again later, Dole blandly read from a crib sheet and won only tepid applause from the carefully screened G.O.P. crowd...
...with African-Americans. But TIME Washington correspondent Tamala Edwards reports that Dole's campaign staff thinks the potential downside far outweighs the modicum of good will the NAACP appearance might generate. "They are afraid that he might put his foot in his mouth, especially when he speaks to a tepid or hostile audience," she says. "The campaign might have calculated that Dole has more to lose by addressing the convention, and potentially saying something offensive." Dole did offer, unsuccessfully, to have former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, the GOP's highest-profile progressive, speak instead. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar