Word: lames
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even as the politicians haggle over control of ministries and key posts in the new government, the seat of real power in Baghdad becomes increasingly difficult to identify. Right now, executive authority remains in the hands of the lame-duck government of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, the U.S. appointee who garnered only 14 percent of the vote in the election and who has turned down offers of a cabinet post in order to claim the role of opposition leader...
...competition between rival Iraqi factions. Now, nobody really holds the ring, and the contest to shape post-Saddam Iraq is more wide-open than ever. The election has not resolved the basic political conflicts among Iraqis, but it has turned the current U.S.-appointed government into a lame duck and has diminished U.S. influence over the next...
...don’t want to be a lame duck for a long period of time,” she said. “You don’t want to do it too precipitously because you want your faculty to make a smooth transition...
...don’t want to be a lame duck for a long period of time,” she said. “You don’t want to do it too precipitously because you want your faculty to make a smooth transition...
...know it kind of sounds lame to say ‘Oh, I have a lot of e-mails,’ but it’s a big part of what I do,” he says, adding that he gets around 20 to 30 e-mails an hour on his personal account and around 60 an hour on the UC President’s account...