Word: lames
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when finals clubs did not have a guests of members-only rule, finals clubs still didn’t attract a significant part of the student population. When I was a Harvard undergrad, finals club parties were the last thing my friends and I wanted to do. They were lame and self-important—wannabe fraternities, one could...
...lame roommate Amanda took our blocking form to the office the day before it was due. We thought that the list was more of a work-in-progress. We were planning on dropping her friends the night before, but since the form was already in, we were now stuck with them for three years. What...
...would be a good start. Right now, for example, bank managers need never fear for their jobs no matter how poorly they perform; that's because extensive cross-ownership between banks and affiliated companies minimizes publicly available shares, making corporate takeovers, especially by foreigners, exceedingly difficult. Shielded from competition, lame banks are free to limp along with little incentive to reform. Another example strikes right at the heart of the country's pocketbooks. Using the dubious justification that the nation's food supply needs to be more "self-sufficient," Japan's inefficient agricultural sector has successfully lobbied for tariffs...
...roses and chocolates are not in the Valentine’s Day cards this year, fear not. While the Harvard dating scene is decidedly lame, life won’t always be this way, at least not if the modern-day yentas at It’s Just Lunch have anything to do about...
...this leaves South Korea's laureate leader as the lamest of lame ducks, tarnished by scandal and failure. His once promising legacy now seems more suited to an epitaph: Money can't buy you love?or peace...