Word: lamest
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Even if the old pol does lose the election, he would not step down until January. But he might still be the lamest of ducks, trying to use 36 years' worth of connections and favors to have his way one last time. Rostenkowski seems game, whatever happens. Of the health plan, he says, "I think we're going to produce a bill by September." He adds: "I'd rather go out with a bill on the floor and lose it than just bag it." Spoken like a man who knows how to return a favor...
...anyone except perhaps his closest relatives to consider him relevant. And with elections taking place Sunday, the Communist Prime Minister of East Germany has less than a week to go in an office that may not even exist by this time next year. Hans Modrow, 62, is the lamest of lame ducks: outgoing leader of a vanishing state, standard bearer of a vanishing party...
Well-intentioned but slightly befuddled, American politicians rush to assist Hungary in its transition to democracy. -- East Germany's Modrow is the lamest of lame ducks. -- The contras and the Sandinistas balk at demobilization...