Word: ducking
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...vetoed scores of pro-reform legislation in the past, but the President's bill would place them in a quandary: reject the legislation and risk an explosion of popular protest, or approve it and suffer the inevitable consequences. If their recent track record offers any guide, the Council may duck the confrontation by approving the bill, then seek to undermine its implementation via their control of the judiciary...
...ends with the kind of story that made Crumb famous - the like of which he hasn't touched in years - dirty, funny animals. This "Fritz the Cat" style combines Crumb's two biggest comic influences: the anarchic early issues of "Mad" magazine and the simplicity of the Donald Duck comics. This one stars "Super Duck, The Cockeyed Wonder." Uwanna, "Super Duck's" girlfriend, gets tired of him falling asleep on the couch after making him dinner. So Supes orders some special pills from the back of the "Beat Off" magazine his nephew Fauntleroy gets caught reading. But the pills turn...
...times before finding a place where she felt secure. Her first apartment, a two-bedroom walk-up in an economically struggling neighborhood in the Far North Side, appeared fine at first, and at $585 a month was in her price range. "It was a relief to not have to duck when I walked by my own window," she says, referring to the stray gunfire that crackled through Cabrini after dark. Nearly anything would be safer than Cabrini, she reasoned. But just two months after she moved in, a vandal torched the building entryway. In the fire and smoke...
...required for the creation of the print." Adams' prints are surprisingly small. To achieve the utmost sharpness, some were produced as contact prints from the large pieces of film he used in a view camera. This heavy piece of equipment rests on a tripod and requires the operator to duck under a black cloth...
...atmosphere meant a consensus approach to decision making and often protected executives from being removed by their boards, which were dominated by friends. Deutsche Telekom probably won't find a new leader until after the Sept. 22 elections because no one wants to risk being appointed by a lame duck. With opinion polls showing the CDU/CSU in the lead over Schröder's Social Democratic Party, Stoiber may get the chance to anoint his own candidate. The owners of the people's share may remain unhappy for many more months to come...