Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advisers realize that the first half of 1985 will be their best opportunity to win support for new legislative programs. By the end of next year, they figure, many lawmakers will be less susceptible to White House pressures, since by then Reagan will be regarded by some as a lame duck. "There'll be no extended honeymoon this time," says David Gergen, former White House communications director. "It's essential that he reach out to the Democrats quickly...
...ended a long ideological split within your party, and your political success since then has kept that down. But at the Dallas convention we began to see the feud revive. Is it going to be possible to keep the party together philosophically? Or as you get into a lame-duck situation, will we see the feud revive...
...million in the 1985 budget to notify vulnerable workers. But according to Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered in defense of this unethical, immoral decision is 'there is no legal responsibility for NIOSH to notify...
That psychic procrustean bed is being splintered by Ferraro's campaign. The next woman to run for Vice President will not need to achieve perfect self-modulation. Nor will a male candidate again take the liberty, as George Bush did, of making lame jokes about the World Series when given the chance to ask a question of his female opponent. Lee Csanad, a typographer, said indignantly, "Bush certainly underscored the fact that to this Administration our opinion has never mattered." The Bush campaign's post-debate donning of the manly trappings of the locker room-from gleeful references...
...method proved a lifesaver to brothers Lame and Glen Selby of Caspar, Wyo, who were burned after they playfully painted their bodies, tried to remove the paint with a solvent and then came into contact with a flame...