Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevent the gathering from breaking down into a cacophony of dissent, which is always a possibility when Democrats gather. White rigged the rules in an attempt to minimize debates on resolutions critical of Carter. But on the eve of the convention he made concessions to liberal groups, led by lameduck Minnesota Congressman Don Fraser and UAW President Douglas Fraser, to allow several dissident resolutions to get a full airing on Sunday. The 23 official resolutions that were intended as the convention's centerpiece had been approved a week in advance by the White-picked Committee on Conference Procedure...
Though many of Silverman's interim shows sound tired (a two-part Rescue from Gilligan's Island), they may fare better than the lameduck series that they will preempt. Among them are such rock-bottom offerings as Sword of Justice (Sept. 10, 8 p.m. E.D.T.), a contemporary rehash of Zorro, and The Eddie Capra Mysteries (Sept. 8, 9 p.m.), yet another rip-off of Perry Mason. Though Grandpa Goes to Washington (Sept. 7, 9 p.m.) has Jack Albertson playing a U.S. Senator, it seems as old-hat as The Farmer's Daughter. NBC's principal...
...careers of Wallace and Johnson have been intertwined since their years together at the University of Alabama law school, where Wallace was considered liberal and Johnson an aristocratic conservative. Wallace grabbed headlines in 1959, when, as a lameduck state judge he made a public show of defying a Johnson order to turn over voting lists to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Johnson later found that Wallace had cooperated with the authorities, and dropped contempt charges against him. But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962. As the years passed, Johnson's intervention...
Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
Even within the lameduck Ford Administration, some officials are beginning to believe the economy needs some temporary stimulation. Says one Ford economist: "If the numbers don't move in the next couple of months, no one will stand in the way of a tax cut." In fact, Ford in his final budget will propose a tax cut of $10 billion and tie the cut to reductions of $15 billion or perhaps $20 billion, to begin about a year from now, in federal spending programs...