Word: flipflop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart said he was pleased by the policy flipflop...
...there is more to a quad than another flipflop. When a flyer is traveling through the air at 80 m.p.h., reaction time is measured in milli seconds. "If it's a triple somersault, Mi guel can feel if he's going too fast," explains Juan, 32. "He can relax and slow down. If he's going too slowly, he can tuck up tighter and complete the third somer sault faster." The quadruple, by contrast, allows no such mid-course adjustment; once the flyer has released the bar and tucked himself up for the first of four turns...
...military spending in the next six years, could he also keep his promise to balance the federal budget by 1984? No way, his critics had insisted. As the recession further depressed revenues, automatically pushing up social spending, and projected deficits ballooned, even Budget Director David Stockman belatedly advocated a flipflop, urging massive tax increases. Last week Reagan moved toward a difficult decision: he would not keep his pledge to balance the budget, but would hold firm to his 1982 tax cuts and permit only limited tax hikes later. At the same time, he would ask an increasingly rebellious Congress...
...Common Market official: "Why does the U.S. count on the Europeans so much when what the Europeans do turns out to be irrelevant?" The allies went to "great trouble" to form a common position in support of Carter, said this official, only to confront what he called "another flipflop" in U.S. policy. Among America's allies the most damaging immediate fallout from the aborted mission was the reinforcement of an already strong conviction: Carter is not up to leading the U.S. and the alliance. A senior Common Market official was despairing: "It's not what we thought Americans...
...lead the alliance in the current crises than the disdain that allied leaders have for Jimmy Carter. He is generally regarded as being inept and naive, and as a politician who has demonstrated his inability to set a foreign policy course, stick by it and execute it. "Zigzag" and "flipflop" have become part of the scornful lexicon of European diplomats. Among the examples most often cited: Carter's push to have the neutron warhead deployed in Western Europe, winning the support of a reluctant Helmut Schmidt, only to postpone the project indefinitely; pressuring West Germany to reflate its economy...