Word: laming
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...business atmosphere meant a consensus approach to decision making and often protected executives from being removed by their boards, which were dominated by friends. Deutsche Telekom probably won't find a new leader until after the Sept. 22 elections because no one wants to risk being appointed by a lame duck. With opinion polls showing the CDU/CSU in the lead over Schröder's Social Democratic Party, Stoiber may get the chance to anoint his own candidate. The owners of the people's share may remain unhappy for many more months to come...
...should decide that his future lies in New Jersey, then Afro-American studies—led by a lame-duck chair—may not be able to raise the necessary funds and recruit the necessary faculty...
...Americans who took the field without star players Clint Mathis and Claudio Reyna, such excuses may have seemed a little, well, lame. But veteran U.S. midfielder Cobi Jones was feeling magnanimous. "All in all, we were pretty lucky, and the Portuguese just didn't have that luck on their side...
...Family members grapple with their own revulsion and bafflement at what Nariman and they must endure. To do so, the novel suggests, is to fully engage with your own humanity. In the hospital, Nariman, pondering an older orderly, wonders if "collecting feces and urine from the beds of the lame and the halt and the diseased" might be the "necessary conditions" for achieving enlightenment. Watching her youngest boy feed his grandfather, Roxana decides she is "witnessing something almost sacred...
...there's a rotten apple in every barrel? Either way, there aren't enough clich?s in the world to comfort South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, whose All My (Corrupt) Sons soap opera has the politician yearning for the do-nothing end of term to which a lame duck is entitled. Kim's youngest son, high-living L.A. resident Kim Hong Gul, faces charges that he took at least $1.2 million in bribes from local businessmen to facilitate deals. He apologized to his parents and the nation last week, before surrendering to Seoul prosecutors. Meanwhile, the President's second...