Word: flapped
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...solution everyone can agree to by the March 31 deadline, agricultural interests and drug companies from the wealthy world show no signs of retreating. But if the WTO fails to make real progress soon, they may lose a more important war. Bring 'em All Back Home The current diplomatic flap over Iraq may be sparking American threats to boycott French companies, but one French organization hopes to siphon off some of the steam. Provence Promotion - an association that recruits new businesses to the Marseilles area - is trying to lure successful expats back from America. Since September, the Home Sweet Home...
...remained collaborators in name but essentially stopped talking. To find out what she was doing, Wilkins had to go to a seminar Franklin gave in November 1951. He invited Watson to come along. (Crick, whose interest in DNA was well known, thought it might cause too much of a flap if he showed up.) Wilkins had warned Watson that Franklin was difficult; for his part, Watson had a generally piggish attitude toward women at the time. He liked "popsies"--young, pretty things without brains--but strong, independent women rather baffled him. In The Double Helix, he puts Franklin down...
Qorvis partner Michael Petruzzello denied anything was done covertly. But the Saudi role in the ads shocked Qorvis' law firm, Patton Boggs, which also represents the Saudi embassy. When the ads ran, some Patton Boggs partners who protested them--including one who quit over the flap--were led to believe the Saudi government was not involved. --By Michael Weisskopf and Timothy J. Burger
...always drawling about some legislative gambit on the Sunday TV talk shows. For a man who has occupied leadership positions in the House and Senate for 23 years, Lott has little to show for it by way of political vision or legislative authorship. In that sense, the Thurmond flap was a defining moment for Lott--a chance to prove that he had grown and changed and was fit to be a national leader...
...perseverance turns a flap into a crisis. What this episode is about is far more than another Beltway gaffe. It's quite simply about the soul of the Republican Party. For decades, since the Republicans became the repository for some white Southern resentment of the civil rights era, the G.O.P. has walked a delicate line between legitimate support for small government and strong defense of and illegitimate reliance on racial resentments. In the past five years or so, there has been a welcome and clear attempt to grapple more directly with the question of race. Figures like Ward Connerly...