Taking a decision as late as possible would help avoid the widely respected Mr. Trichet being seen as a lame duck.
Here’s why this lame duck session is so important. Early in the lastdecade, President Bush and Congress enacted a series of tax cuts that weredesigned to expire at the end of this year.
But with President Bush now the lamest of lame ducks, China knows that it can't afford to be caught on the wrong side of history.
The ailing motor industry is a lame duck that the government has helped in the past
Those hoping for action in Washington may have to wait until the White House quacker is a lame duck in 2013.
You know the rule of the road nowadays: no waiting for lame ducks.
Unpopular lame duck though he may be, Mr Bush will stay in office until January 2009.
It may be a good start to a process of global economic reform but as long as a lame duck is dealing for the U.S., major changes aren't in the CARDS.
A lame duck manager cannot bring his business back on track.
Are signaling they won't go along. Even in the lame duck, finding enough GOP senators to vote for the treaty if their leadership doesn't change its mind will be a daunting task.
Mexican business leaders fear that their President, following his party's heavy defeat in recent parliamentary elections, may see out his remaining three years as a lame duck.
"You might be a lame duck, but you still have the power to help lame turkeys, who are made that way by the cruelty of the meat industry," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk wrote in the letter.
While Mr. Qian more depicted behaviors of lame duck intellectuals, Yang focused on the inner disorders and changes of literators under the press of external environment.
The water plant is a lame duck.
A lame duck, of course.
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