"So I don't see any reason why we can't work together in a lame-duck session, " he added.
The Mets picked up manager Terry Collins's option for 2013 at the end of last year, ensuring he wouldn't be viewed as a lame duck this year.
"Knock-off shows that are lame imitations usually don't work, while innovation does, " Realityblurred.com's Andy Dehnart wrote in an e-mail.
They don't like to hear excuses -- lame, humorous or otherwise.
Whether or not this gets solved in the next couple of weeks, during this session, whether it gets kicked over to the lame duck, I don't know the answer to that.
The House leaders say they will expel him during the lame duck session if he doesn't resign first.
Republicans, because they still face a Democrat-controlled Congress in the lame-duck session, won't have the votes to permanently extend all the tax cuts.
We're not exactly sure what makes these virus transistors so special, but apparently the transistors they've built out of the nano-coated strands, and sandwiched between two electrodes, are easy to switch between ON and OFF states, since they don't need to build up a charge at a lame-o capacitor before they can be switched.
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This is not to say that lame-duck sessions by nature can't do big things.
He saw himself ridiculed as a lame duck as soon as House leaders decided they didn't have the votes and pulled fast-track off the floor.
But they can't salvage the formulaic sports movie plot, the stereotypical Louisiana characters or the lame role of Henry "The Fonz" Winkler as an off-kilter coach.
There were no improvements under the hood (though even the lowly Nokia Lumia 610 was fairly smooth on WP7.5, and still is), no OTA updates, you're stuck with Internet Explorer version 9 instead of the much zippier IE10 and apps created for WP8 won't work -- giving developers very little reason to create new ones for the lame duck OS, or even update existing ones.
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Studies show that parents do a lame job of talking to their kids about money, but that doesn't mean we're not imparting our values.
But he also said he didn't think a deal could be struck in the next month and a half during a lame duck session of Congress.
While the Republicans don't strictly need a speaker between now and Election Day, they would need one for the lame duck session that has to meet thereafter (ten of the dozen spending bills for the current fiscal year have yet to be approved).
We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.
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