Word: lames
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...would be a mistake to ignore this political sea change by ramming the GATT through Congress next week without much debate and with no opportunity to amend," Byrd said today. "These are matters that concern every American and should not be decided hurriedly, under the cloud of a lame-duck session." Under the fast-track rules for trade agreements -- which apply until the end of the year -- Senate debate is limited to 20 hours and the pact must be accepted or rejected without amendment. But President Clinton himself reaffirmed his commitment to GATT and rejected incoming Senate Majority Leader...
...first tests of Republican cooperation with President Clinton will come later this month, when Congress briefly reconvenes in a lame-duck session to attempt to pass the GATT global trade treaty. Though that measure promises to create thousands of new export jobs in the U.S., it is opposed by textile manufacturers, some unions and other influential interests. When the White House last week conducted an informal count of Senate votes, the tally came up two votes shy of the number needed to approve the measure. Welfare reform and GATT were the first two subjects Clinton wanted to discuss with Gingrich...
President Clinton urged a lame-duck Congress to give thumbs up to theGeneral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which he said would create jobs and boost U.S. wages. "This should not be a partisan issue," Clinton said in a speech at Georgetown University. Clinton is under the gun on GATT: the head of the World Trade Organization warned today that failure by the U.S. to ratify the deal next month could dissolve the entire accord, which is set to go into effect Jan. 1. But Clinton need not worry on this account: the pro-business, pro-NAFTA G.O.P. will probably...
Besides, re-election means facing the public. Term limits would create a new, politically dangerous category of "lame duck" representatives and senators. These representatives would become completely unaccountable to the public in their final terms...
Pornography, by definition, is "the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement" (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary). Possibly a picture of a man or a woman using the dildo, with bad lighting and lame composition, would be considered pornography. But are the dildos themselves pornography? Hardly. The photograph of the penis is at least a Photograph, but it's just a penis...