Word: flip-flopped
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...wasn't going to vote for Kerry because of his reputation for flip-flopping. But if it becomes evident you have made the wrong decision, it's time to flip-flop. When Kerry's eyes were opened to what was happening in Vietnam, he opposed the war that he had volunteered to fight in. I was taken in by the lies regarding the dangers posed by Iraq. I was in favor of a pre-emptive war to get Saddam Hussein before he used weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or supplied them to terrorists. I now realize we Americans...
...evaluated and mitigated with the cooperation of the world community. Jane Mulcaster San Jose, California, U.S. Your article stated that Kerry "deals in shades of gray, which means reaching a decision can be a long and winding road." Unfortunately, Kerry's winding road contains so many hairpin turns - his flip-flops - that he does not inspire confidence. Richard L. Johnson College Station, Texas, U.S. I wasn't going to vote for Kerry because of his reputation for flip-flopping. But if it becomes evident you have made the wrong decision, it's time to flip-flop. When Kerry's eyes...
Figures provided by the admissions office suggest that this threshold, measured in SAT-terms, is around 1300. Although students from families making below $40,000 a year on the whole face lower acceptance rates than those from more wealth, above this 1300 threshold, the acceptance rates flip-flop...
...Howard Dean with stars and a war record. Clark seems to have realized this himself, for the next day he reversed course. "I would never have voted for this war," he told the Associated Press. "I've gotten a very consistent record on this." His flip-flop delighted some of his rivals. "If it doesn't get any better than the first 24 hours," says a strategist for another Democrat, "he's going to be gone in two weeks." Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, is warier. "The other campaigns make a mistake if they don't take him seriously...
...NATURAL GAS: THE CONGRESSIONAL FLIP-FLOP. A quarter-century ago, Congress enacted the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, which banned after 1990 the burning of natural gas by power plants to generate electricity. The reasoning: because that fuel was in short supply and was most widely used to heat homes--it goes to half of all residences--it should be preserved for that purpose. Pete Domenici, the Republican Senator from New Mexico, told his colleagues that year, "Almost since we found natural gas we have been busy finding ways to abuse it, waste it, literally throw it away...