Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week has been one of those times. The state legislators convened for their lame-duck session Monday, and they quickly demonstrated their instinct for self-interest and their aversion to bold political action...
...state legislature opened its lame duck session yesterday with work on pay raises and drug law reform--high priority items on an agenda influenced by the recent state elections...
...with the aggressively weird psyche of the eight-year-old. In Minnesota, they say, for weird. Bogus is an ordinary, though slightly out-of-the-way word that has been recommissioned as youth slang that means fraudulent or simply second-rate or silly. Bogus is a different shading of lame. Something that is easy is cinchy. Overexcited? One is blowing a hype...
...certainly our biggest win in a long, long time," three-year veteran Lamont comments with Lame understatement...
...Organization of Management Confidential Employees (OMCE), a non-bargaining unit of government managers, is suing in New York State Supreme Court to stop the tuition payment to a transportation aid to lame-duck Gov. Hugh Carey. The aid will probably be leaving the government when Carey's term expires this January...