Word: tepidness
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...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...
Together with Jewish neoconservatives, the Christian right has attacked the Administration for making even tepid criticisms of Israel's military offensive, warning Bush against ceding the "moral clarity" of the war on terrorism. "We're concerned there's a duplicitous interpretation of the Bush doctrine--one for America and one for Israel," says Texas pastor John Hagee, who broadcasts his message on more than 230 TV and radio stations nationwide. Robertson told CNN that Bush's Evangelical support is "wavering a little bit" and that Bush made "a big mistake" by allowing Powell to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...
...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...
...service. Customers seeking to experience Southern comfort food may devour tasty collard greens whose bitter aftertaste sadly recalls the disappointments of the night before. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there. The bread pudding is certainly creamy—but should bread pudding really be creamy? Tepid Eggs Florentine fester atop an extinguished flame, providing a daunting challenge to those who may still feel queasy. And, at last reckoning, it did appear that Florence was in Italy. The appearance of Eggs Florentine at the buffet can thus only be explained by the fact that they are cheap...