Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bane, who today leaves the moribund Education Department--where she called herself a "lame-duck bureaucrat"--reserved comment on those demands for now. "I don't know the internal structure of the Kennedy School, so I'd rather not comment" on the students' sweeping recommendations, she said...
...lame duck session many observers predicted would achieve little more than passage of interim appropriation bills has produced a surprising volume of legislation, several heated procedural confrontations, and a blunt foreshadowing of the ascendency of the right on Capitol Hill...
Perhaps most significant to Harvard are the repeated threats, from both Reagan advisers and Hill conservatives, of a push to cut federal spending for education and repeal federal affirmative action programs. Neither issue came up during the lame duck gathering, but Hatch, Helms and Thurmond have made clear their intention to take Reagan up on his campaign promises to reform federal education policy...
...Moscow's backing, Kania is dealing from a very weak hand. That became evident last week when Administration sources confirmed that Poland had asked the U.S. for $3 billion in low-interest loans over three years. A rescue mission of such magnitude is an impossibility for the lame-duck Carter Administration. But to show good faith, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has recommended that credit guarantees for grain sales to Poland be increased from $670 million to a reported $900 million over the next year. According to British Trade Minister Cecil Parkinson, who was in Warsaw last week, Poland...
Full-Feathered Lame Duck...