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Jimmy Carter, Ford replied testily: "Because I'm President until January 20." The statehood surprise surely reflected the familiar predicament of a lame-duck Chief Executive whose desire to deepen his mark in history is matched only by his loss of real power. That was evident, too, in a flurry of other last-minute moves by the President...
...grudge against Pinocchio himself, who in Collodi's tale is afflicted with disabilities enough before achieving his dream of becoming a flesh-and-blood boy. Their objections focus on the book's two ne'er-do-wells, the Fox and the Cat, shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless and without a tail...
...Japanese have traditionally regarded open comment on physical infirmities as bad manners. Accordingly, they have been backing away for some time from such offensive terminology as mekura no kojiki (blind beggar) and bik-ko no kojiki (lame beggar) in their translations of the Italian tale. Nowadays the two villains are usually referred to in Japanese translations as "a cat with bad eyesight" and "a fox with weak legs...
Then, when the mood prevailed, Desaulniers would think of some way to hit a crack or make the ball pull up lame. Basically, it's a question of whether or not you'd go for the A in a pass-fail course, because for Desaulniers, these matches are not challenges...
Troubled by Echeverria's uncertain response to the fiscal crisis, Mexican and foreign investors were bothered this year by the fact that the President was not behaving at all like a lame duck. While López Portillo was busy campaigning, the mercurial "Don Luis" continued working an 18-hour day-fueling rumors spread by his conservative critics that he intended to stay in power, possibly by means of a military coup. His last major act as President was a political shocker. Charging that wealthy landlords had violated Mexican law by masking their holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria...