Word: flip-flopped
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...last night's women's basketball game against Providence will swear they saw not one, but two entirely different games in the course of the evening. The cagers left the court with a 77-43 loss, demoting their season record to 1-5 in one of the most remarkable flip-flop matches ever...
...President Carter postpones production of the neutron bomb after urging NATO members to accept it, another U.S. foreign policy flip-flop that leaves Europeans more confused and less certain of American leadership...
...because of what they termed their "lingering suspicions" that the State Department's initial backing of the U.N. resolution reflected a growing influence of a pro-Arab group of policymakers in the Administration. Vance denied this was the case. And once again Vance took full blame for the flip-flop on the resolution, saying that his department had failed to follow Carter's wishes...
...officials had first told West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that a boycott was not being considered. Carter changed his mind, and Bonn was given only two hours' notice before the boycott was announced. Said a West German diplomat of last week's Security Council debacle: "The U.N. flip-flop is just one more piece of evidence to support Schmidt's contention that West Europeans must look out for themselves, and protect themselves as much as possible against the effect of these Carter fiascoes...
Among the Democrats who want to succeed him, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. deserves commendation for raising important issues and advancing interesting proposals; his record on energy is one of innovation and intelligence. But his inexperience and tendency towards opportunism--the notorious flip-flop on Proposition 13 being the most worrisome example--limit his attractiveness as a candidate...