Word: laming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said, “The early 90s were so wack! Meg Ryan must have been out of her mind when she wore those weird ankle boots in ‘French Kiss.’ She looks so incredibly dumb and lame!” “I agree,” said my friend. “ Ankle boots are so bizarre, one would have to have an undulating brain hemorrhage to find them even remotely excusable.” “So true,” I replied. “That?...
...help them catch bad actors. "The anti-fraud interests are very strong," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior staff attorney with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Most Hill staffers believe it's unlikely that the pretexting legislation will pass during the "lame duck" session of Congress, which happens in November when the members return from campaigning. Other issues and distractions will probably grab center stage, which means another bill will have to be introduced during the start of the new Congress in January; a change in leadership could further complicate matters...
...market before they even enter it. By allowing these restrictions to continue, the U.S. is not only harming these newly-minted graduates, but is robbing the U.S. skilled labor market of many of its most willing and able young professionals. With elections on the horizon, we hope that a lame duck Congress will act on legislation that will expand on the U.S.’s H1-B visa program.The number of individuals granted H-1B status is capped at 65,000 annually. Acquiring an H-1B visa requires proof of graduation from college and a sponsoring U.S. employer...
...report induced a good deal of eye-rolling: Not only was the center’s raison d’être dubious, but the proposed floor plan was incorrigibly lame...
...election in 2004, his political machine launched a sophisticated, expensive and largely unnoticed campaign aimed at maintaining G.O.P. majorities in the House and Senate. If that campaign succeeds, it would defy history and political gravity, both of which ordain that midterm elections are bad news for a lame-duck President's party, especially when the lame duck has low approval ratings. As always, a key part of the campaign involves money--the national Republican Party is dumping at least three times as much into key states as its Democratic counterpart is--but money is only the start. "Panic results when...