Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...past, Bostonians probably would not have blinked at such favoritism. Not in these tight-space times. Some ticket-weary citizens reportedly spat on Richards and deluged him with irate letters. Lameduck Mayor Kevin White was lambasted when he declared that he saw nothing wrong with providing "preferential treatment" to powerful political figures who help Boston. Said White: "I do favors if I think it's in the best interests of the city." Said Tony Cennamo, a WBUR-FM radio station announcer: "When I read about the ticket-fixing, I got damned crazy, almost violent. I wanted...
Well, Dad, I guess you're going to be a lameduck in Utah and a sitting duck in California," quipped Lisa Gardner, 16, when she heard about her father's appointment last week. On July 1, after a decade as the University of Utah's popular president, David Pierpont Gardner, 49, takes on what is probably the nation's most challenging job in education. He will become the 15th president of the nine-campus, 139,176-student University of California, the finest public university system in the U.S., and one, as Gardner says, "where...
...m.p.h. speed limit. What he got eleven days later was a page-long "Expression of Concern" signed by some 35 Congressmen that promised little more than a review of the federal tax hikes called for in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, enacted by last year's lameduck Congress. Nonetheless, when he asked truckers to return to work last week, Parkhurst appeared unbowed. "We have accomplished a lot, more than we have ever been able to in the past," he declared at a raucous news conference punctuated by shouts of "Sellout!" from heckling truckers...