Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...