Word: lame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intensely political job," he says. "When you are in for a year, you are a lame duck. It's harder to get people to serve as chairmen of departments because they say to you 'you'll never have an opportunity to be grateful...
...Rosovsky's colleagues say that it is the dean himself, not other professors, who is creating the lame duck label...
...Lame duck is not the way you are perceived but how you perceive yourself," says one observer. "It is more in his mind than anyone else...
...hope of taking part in a power-sharing arrangement with a future military regime. "We can get on with the Americans," asserts a European-based opposition leader. "We worked closely with the Russians for 40 years. What did it get us? Garbage: antiquated weapons, outdated industrial goods and a lame economy...
...insult to injury, Seveiri--who had been interviewed by The Crimson less than a week before--reiterated his lame excuse moments later. "One of the problems is that there is no daily paper in Cambridge," he claimed...