Word: laming
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...intensely political job," he says. "When you are in for a year, you are a lame duck. It's harder to get people to serve as chairmen of departments because they say to you 'you'll never have an opportunity to be grateful...
...Rosovsky's colleagues say that it is the dean himself, not other professors, who is creating the lame duck label...
...hope of taking part in a power-sharing arrangement with a future military regime. "We can get on with the Americans," asserts a European-based opposition leader. "We worked closely with the Russians for 40 years. What did it get us? Garbage: antiquated weapons, outdated industrial goods and a lame economy...
...insult to injury, Seveiri--who had been interviewed by The Crimson less than a week before--reiterated his lame excuse moments later. "One of the problems is that there is no daily paper in Cambridge," he claimed...
...L.D.P. fiasco has stirred speculation that Kaifu's days may be numbered -- or at the very least that his chances of re-election next October are doomed. "Without Ozawa in one of the party top posts, Kaifu could be a lame- duck Prime Minister," observed a Japanese politician. Others speculate that Ozawa's sudden downfall might trigger the comeback of former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, still considered one of the most powerful politicians in Japan despite his resignation two years ago over an influence- peddling scandal...