Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special prosecutor (appointed in May) on the other for control of the tapes. Whatever the fine points of the legal debate, its very nature-with the implication that there was guilty knowledge to hide-destroyed what was left of Nixon's moral position. It made him a lame duck six months into a presidency won by the second largest plurality in American history...
...Student Assembly, batting low attendance and a lame-duck stigma last night urged the formation of a student advisory committee in the financial aid office to investigate how proposed cuts in federal tuition support could affect Harvard students and the College's admission policies...
Many House committee chairmen said this was the first year a lack of candidates had made elections necessary, attributing the low interest to perception of the Assembly as "lame-duck" with the expectation of a new government. The attitude among many student is "why get involved when everything's dying out?" said Currier House Chairman Alan Khazei...
Pearl said after the meeting she will work through House committees this week to at tract more members to the Assembly The Assembly image of being historically ineffective and the lame duck perception had depleted the Assembly Pearl said
Optimistic about overcoming Faculty resistance this rime around students and College officials cited a shared desire to replace the existing network of inefficient lame duck committees with the centralized Undergraduate Council...