Word: tepidity
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...funding controversy cannot really explain the tepid student support for AWARE. Calendars about the program were posted all over campus, and it is reasonable to assume that the vast majority of students knew about the events. Why did so few attend...
...known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post in the forestry administration in Bratislava. -- BOB DYLAN, pop singer, still records and tours. His most recent solo album, Down in the Groove, drew tepid reviews, though an album he recorded with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (who died in late 1988), The Traveling Wilburys, won praise. -- ARETHA FRANKLIN, the "queen of soul," won two Grammy Awards in 1988. -- MARVIN GAYE, rhythm- and-blues singer, was shot and killed...
...Many network reporters and executives admit that in 1988 the candidates succeeded in manipulating the news. Now they are wondering what to do about it. -- A season of tepid endorsements...
...conservatives shriek all around them, liberal churchmen have been bending over backward to avoid criticizing the film, stressing Scorsese's right to interpret Jesus in his own way and sometimes issuing a tepid defense or two. Fundamentalist fears are exaggerated, says the Rev. Eugene Schneider of the United Church of Christ, because "people who go to the movie are going to come out bored and leave before it is over...
Harvard's response says that the changed wordsare of no consequence, McArthur's role in the casewas widely-known and that all that was deletedfrom the report was "a very tepid appraisal of[Jackson's] creativity...