Word: flip-flopped
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Still, the vote is intriguing for two reasons: first, because it represents a flip-flop from the club's position of late last year, when members voted to begin admitting women this fall; and second, because of the sheer stupidity of Carlock's subsequent statements...
...deny a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade without amendments and within a specified time. The process is considered crucial to preventing complex trade treaties from being picked apart by special interests: NAFTA, for instance, had been negotiated under the auspices of this process. What caused the Clinton flip-flop? Criticisms from groups representing consumers, as well as complaints from conservatives...
WASHINGTON -- The Administration has a problem. PRESIDENT CLINTON said he would veto any health-care bill without universal coverage. Now that he may have to flip-flop on the issue, he doesn't want to look as if he's flip- flopping. White House advisers say a buzz word has been coined to make delay seem O.K. Says an insider: "If we can construct a 'pathway' to get there by 2002, he'll accept...
Clinton's latest display of elasticity hardly compares on the flip-flop scale to George Bush's welshing on "Read my lips: no new taxes." Still, the stakes for the President are daunting: he must deliver health-care reform this fall to keep his presidency afloat, but he must redefine "universal coverage" to deliver reform. If he gives away too little on that issue, the legislation will falter; if he gives away too much, he may lose liberals who support his plan and get blamed for breaking his unusual veto promise as well...
...courage to change is often the very definition of leadership, and this particular Clinton flip-flop is better yet because the President expressed his new position without the legalistic fudging that has too often characterized his tenure. This time a foolish and failed policy was forthrightly acknowledged to have outlived its "usefulness," and squarely junked...