Word: lameduck
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...President fast closing in on lameduck status, six months is a long time to spend on forging a legacy. But Clinton's mind is elsewhere. He no longer sits in on lengthy policy bull sessions with his advisers, and he has stopped reading about new developments in the various investigations and lawsuits that nip at his Administration, preferring the occasional briefing instead. Since recovering from his knee injury, he has taken to playing golf not just on weekends, but on workday afternoons. White House press secretary Mike McCurry praises the President's newfound balance between work and leisure, and insists...
Skocpol termed the title of associate professor at Harvard "a lameduck status," explaining the position is tenured at other universities, but not here...
...best way to describe the Harvard women's swimming team's 152-147 loss to Yale last Friday at Blodgett is to let the Saddam-swattin', globe-hoppin,' Eli-graduatin' macho lameduck himself tell the story...
Tribe also said Reagan's persistence in what seems to be a lost cause will prove damaging to the lameduck President "In the end, I think this will be the cause of resentment of the administration," said Tribe, one of Bork's most vocal critics...
...came at a time when the new Administration badly needed a fast start on several domestic policy initiatives, most notably the immense and worrisome budget deficit. It is widely assumed that the President must move forcefully on the issue before the luster of the November election fades and his lameduck status takes hold. Yet he is already two weeks behind schedule in his budget preparations. Worse yet, his spending plan is not even close to his own goal of paring the deficit to $100 billion by the time his term ends in 1988, and he has let G.O.P. leaders...