11.  Dole received a tepid response from the well-heeled business crowd, though several people said they believed his economic plan was credible.

12.  Dole, who stuck to her habit of roaming into the audience during her remarks, drew a tepid response by endorsing a handful of gun-control measures.

13.  In NEW YORK, U.S. stocks eked out gains, as lower bond yields sparked by a report showing tame inflation received a tepid response.

14.  In overseas trading, U.S. stocks eked out gains, as lower bond yields sparked by a report showing tame inflation received a tepid response.

15.  Initially tepid allied responses grew tougher.

16.  Lenny Wilkens kept shuffling his lineup, with each response as tepid as the last.

17.  Obuchi and some predecessors have come under harsh criticism for their tepid responses to past emergencies and natural disasters.

18.  Perhaps most disconcerting to many officers is what they perceive as his tepid response to the barrage of attacks on the police force during the Simpson trial.

19.  She has no regrets, despite the tepid response from Sloan-Kettering.

20.  Some analysts took the considerably lower offering amount to be the measure of a tepid response.