Word: duck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton appointee, Summers is likely to be hunting for a job again in 18 months, and some analysts say that since he is serving under a lame duck president for such a brief period, he may have a difficult time implementing an ambitious agenda...
...third of white households are online, while among minorities that portion drops to one fifth. Results like that were catnip for Bill Clinton on Thursday as he wound up his four-day visit with the nation?s economic have-nots ? "We have to close that gap," the lame-duck President proclaimed ? and unlimited access to the Internet is sure to be one of Al Gore?s favorite themes in the months ahead. Hey, the school-wiring veep might even be able convince some newcomers he invented the whole thing...
...bring extensive rain gear. Umbrella, rain coat, duck boots--the whole works. It rains here. A lot. Sometimes, an umbrella alone does very little to protect you from Boston's torrential downpours, which are usually accompanied by gusty winds. And the old brick sidewalks of Cambridge has a way of collecting rainwater and ruining shoes. If you don't like getting wet, consider transferring...
Bill Clinton desperately wants to convince us he?s a duck with two good legs. "There will be plenty of time for politics in the months to come," he pleaded at a press conference Friday. "The summer should be a season of progress." With the war in Kosovo over and China in no mood for engagement, Clinton cited "renewed energy for the domestic agenda" and asked, essentially, for just a few more legislative shots at a non-Monica legacy before his time runs out. "America plainly is on the right track. But we will be judged by what...
...package of economic reforms. The proposed reforms would have been an effort to meet the preconditions for a $4.5 billion IMF loan required to roll over Russia's debts to the international institution. "This was entirely expected," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It?s a lame-duck Duma voting down conditions agreed to in April by a government that no longer exists as a challenge to a lame-duck president. The curious thing is that the new government is trying to institute price controls and other measures that would traditionally send the IMF racing for the exits...