Tepid US and global growth forecasts are reinforcing these fears.

Responses to America s call for democracy in the Middle East have been tepid at best.

Persuasive explanations of the crisis point to linkages between today s tepid demand and rising income inequality.

But if Obama lost sleep over this tepid European response, he showed no signs of it.

In geography, temperate or tepid latitudes of Earth lie between the tropics and the polar regions.

Therein lies an additional explanation for tepid job growth, as well as a salutary lesson about policy.

Failure would mean succumbing to a mid air stall, with tepid forward motion giving way to a sudden loss of altitude.

In Germany, the electorate seems poised to eject Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder out of discontent with his tepid allegiance to the neo liberal project.

As a result, the sanctions that have been imposed by the UN Security Council are so tepid that they are unlikely to be effective.

The fiscal response tax cuts and spending increases has varied considerably, being somewhat more tepid in debt averse Europe than in the US and China.

But, for now, a complete meltdown seems distinctly less likely than gradual stabilization followed by a tepid recovery, with soaring debt levels and lingering high unemployment.

In the US and elsewhere, the Doha round has sparked widespread opposition from workers and trade unions, and has elicited only tepid support from the wider public.

Despite its enviable location next door to the rich and booming US, Mexico s growth has ranged from poor to tepid since its economic crisis a decade ago.

They are an enormous boon to low income consumers, partly compensating for the tepid wage growth that many of them have suffered during the past two decades.

Remaining in a currency union with the much more competitive German economy will require wrenching and rapid reforms, for which Hollande s tepid approach will fail to prepare the complacent French.

And yet there is not even the most tepid, faint or remote reference to that very heart felt desire on the part of the vast majority of the world's people.

Its infrastructure systems might be adequate to support the country s tepid 3 4 growth rates, but they are hardly adequate to support the 6 7 rates that it ought to be enjoying amidst the current global boom.