Word: lameing
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...writing to (ask for / request / demand / rhapsodize about the injustice of having to write a letter to ask for) a refund on my $75 contribution to the Undergraduate Council’s (puritanical / paternalistic / lame-sauce) Student Life Fund. Because the UC no longer distributes party grants, I must buy (Milwaukee’s Best / Bud Light / Malibu—but with PBR chasers, so it’s totally legit) using my own funds, which are (meager / paltry / as of a week ago, worth only 13 percent of their former value) to say the least...
...political lame duck's views expressed in interviews and public comments reveal the sweeping reversals that have taken place among some of Israel's ultra-nationalists. Olmert says Israel should withdraw from "almost all" of the West Bank and Golan Heights. A former mayor of "the undivided capital of the Jewish state," he now advocates dividing Jerusalem with the Palestinians. He wants to keep some of the Jewish settlements that adjoin Israel's pre-1967 border but accepts giving the future Palestinian state Israeli territory in a land swap with a "close to 1-to-1-ratio." "The notion...
...viewer should remember that any moment that looks too perfect to be true probably isn't. I once worked on a campaign in which we made a big show of opening our secret debate-prep session to reporters. The highlight was the part when the candidate dramatically rejected the lame, scripted debate answers we staffers had offered up, vowing instead to just tell it like...
...would most likely convene to elect a caretaker government until elections can be held next year. Some suggested that Zuma, who is not a member of parliament, would not serve in a transitional administration and would most likely assume power only after the elections. Although Mbeki has been a lame duck ever since Zuma wrested the ANC leadership from him at last December's party leadership conference, Saturday's move to accelerate Mbeki's ouster has raised fears of growing instability in Africa's largest economy, with bitter divisions within the ANC likely to grow more rancorous. While Zuma...
...historic move by a lame-duck administration many thought could no longer solve any problems...