Word: limps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of victory for Bush: just a few weeks ago, beating Dole by fewer than 10 points in New Hampshire would have been considered quite limp. But in the supercharged age of nonstop tracking polls, expectations change almost as fast as the fickle fancies of undecided voters. By the weekend before the voting, polls showed Dole pulling ahead. Surveys taken before the final debate and before the last ads were aired reinforced the conventional wisdom that Bush was collapsing. His last-minute recovery and victory thus became a surprising triumph...
Drabinsky has never shied away from a fight. As a child with polio, he had to fight for his life; he still walks with a limp. In Cineplex's early days, he barely averted bankruptcy when Canada's reigning circuits, Famous Players and Odeon, pressured distributors to withhold first-run films from the fledgling company. But in 1983 Drabinsky, a lawyer who had written a standard reference on Canadian motion-picture law, convinced the courts that Famous and Odeon were engaging in restraint of trade. A year later he bought the Odeon chain, but his battle with Famous still rages...
...government response was limp. Making no effort to calm the populace, Namphy pledged to install a new President by the constitutionally mandated deadline of Feb. 7. The junta gave the same eight groups that selected the last electoral council 72 hours to name a new body to oversee balloting procedures. But after Catholic bishops and human-rights groups refused to participate, the junta announced plans to set up its own council. Given the government's anger that Duvalierists were banned from running this time, many Haitians expect the junta to finesse the rules so that they can stand...
When it comes to serious, relevant films, the critics and the members of the Academy let their spines go limp. The kudodispensers are easily bullied by Big Issues. Witness "Cry Freedom." It's big. Majestic. Socially relevant. Politically correct. And impossibly boring. If yawns were applause, "Cry Freedom" would be getting standing ovations in every theater in America...
More than 100,000 hedgehogs are flattened on the roads of Britain each year. Of the survivors, thousands limp into the woods to pass the rest of their lives crippled and ill. But other victims are more fortunate. Rescued by Britain's growing legion of hedgehog fanciers, they are gently bundled off to the country's only hedgehog clinic, St. Tiggywinkle's. Named for the hedgehog washerwoman of Beatrix Potter nursery-tale fame, the hospital is equipped to deal with every affliction, from broken bones to deflated spines. St. Tiggywinkle's wards house 150 to 200 prickly patients. Nearly...