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Finally, highly fractionalised parties in government enervated the authority of the executive and rendered prime ministers vulnerable to the problem of the lame duck.
Therefore, in a perfect election, during the sitting president's lame duck period, the president-elect usually signals only obliquely that there will be a ritual burial of the predecessor.
It is far from being a lame duck.
I wish to make clear that, in the longer term, the industry does not regard itself as a lame duck.
It started with the famous "lame duck" speech.
Certainly the philosophy of the "lame duck" cannot be applied to this area, unless we are to accept the gravest political consequences.
In other words, the lame duck policy was put into operation.
I am afraid that on this occasion he has not only produced a lame duck but has gilded it with taxpayers' money.
I apologise for referring again to the "lame duck" philosophy, but really this is an irrelevant approach.
It is quite wrong for any newspaper to suggest that the board is a lame duck.
In the circumstances, should we not have a new definition of what is a lame duck?
In 1970, during their lame duck period, they said that they would abolish it at the end of the seven years.
It is helping the lame duck at the expense of bond holders rather than the taxpayer.
I do not think that it is a lame duck.
We are therefore not discussing a company which is a lame duck.
