Word: lameness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even in the worst-case scenario, there is a glimmer of hope, adds Thurber. If Congress doesn't move in time to approve legislation before heading home in October, they could return after the November elections for a somewhat unusual lame-duck session, bringing back all current members of Congress, including those just ousted, for a last stab at passing the bill...
...describes as a small "hippie" school in Washington State that she attended in the 1970s, she drew comics for the school newspaper. "I was studying fine arts," she remembers, "and I went through a period when I had to call them drawings with words, because comics seemed too lame." As it happened, the paper's editor was another aspiring cartoonist, Matt Groening, who went on to create The Simpsons, and they've been friends ever since. Barry, 46, currently draws a comic strip called Ernie Pook's Comeek, starring the eternally feuding sisters Marlys and Maybonne, which appears in about...
...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...