Word: laming
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...good graces of the New York reviewers, who periodically get very protective of once-great playwrights down on their luck. Still, it's hard for me to imagine any real people - i.e., those who don't have to write about theater for a living - coming away from this lame, irritating work with anything at all except a headache...
...Good speech, lame delivery. With the Greenspan testimony fading into memory and the projected surpluses reacquiring that familiar air of unbelievability, the Bush cut is polling well enough but uncovering a lot of reservations about size and skew. And so the Democrats feel like they have a chance in the next few weeks to throw a stick or two in Bush's spokes...
...thought, well that's pretty lame. I think about sex all the time, and while I've never destroyed an orchard there have been a couple of times I thought about knocking down my neighbor's ugly apple tree. It just rubbed me the wrong...
There is one surprise awaiting the industry. This week lame-duck Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is expected to issue long-anticipated and controversial "competition guidelines," which the big airlines have tried for years to fend off. The document will give detailed definitions of what constitutes predatory behavior and unfair methods of competition. The guidelines will, for the first time since deregulation, allow the DOT wide latitude in looking into the subtle ways competition can be affected. For instance, if a large airline threatens vendors who offer their services to start-up airlines, the new rules would let the DOT move...
...West Bank and Gaza have left the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington traditionally relies to cajole Arafat into concessions facing mounting pressure from their own people to take a tougher stance. Nobody in the region is particularly bullish about the prospects of a peace deal concluded with a lame-duck U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister who, according to most estimates, is headed for an ignominious defeat when Israel goes to the polls a month from...