Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the revision may seem a rather lame attempt to explain away the Administration's failure to reduce unemployment below this year's average of 4.9%, many liberal economists agree that some redefinition is needed. Recent unemployment rates have been persistently higher than in the past because of a huge influx of female, nonwhite and teen-age would-be workers, many poorly educated and unskilled, into the labor force. These people have trouble finding jobs even in a boom economy; the best way to help them may be by expanding job training programs and making structural changes...
...Whitlam knows he cannot avoid an election showdown indefinitely. He gave some indication of the line he may take when he confided to colleagues last week: "I won't be a lame-duck Prime Minister. Anyone in this job enjoys it, but there is no point in enjoying the prestige if one cannot deliver the goods." The prospect is that he will take his chances at the polls next year...
...Congress was debating the law that took effect on July 25,1969, making such gifts no longer valid as tax deductions. Though Johnson, who had just left office, had presidential papers that certainly would have been worth millions of dollars, he elected not to take advantage of the lame-duck law and did not deduct them from his income tax. Nixon had no such hesitation. He made the bequest and took the deductions...
...stopped capitalizing on grease for grease's sake. Today the group draws crowds for its music not for the gimmickry and novelty of Brylcreme or gold lame. The group's musicians hip and singing abilities are now the basis for Sha Na Na's appeal...
...Mets even made the lame and the halt rise from their pallets to perform. Willie Mays, 42, sidelined with cracked ribs and due to retire at the end of the season, was sent in as a pinch hitter during the final game and scratch singled in a run. Willie was replacing Veteran Ed Kranepool, the last of the original Mets, who in turn was substituting for Rusty Staub. Staub, on a home-run jag, could not play in the fifth game because he slammed into an outfield wall making a crucial catch in game four. Kranepool performed...