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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm over the Alliance | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...twelve Justices portrayed in the book, Burger receives the harshest verdict. He is limned as a vain and petty man who consistently tries to bend or ignore the court's rules in order to get his way. His frequent vote switching exasperates his colleagues: after one flipflop, Justice Byron White threw his pencil on the conference table and shouted, "Jesus Christ, here we go again!" The chief is portrayed as a legal lightweight whose opinions are shoddy and poorly thought out. Of one Burger opinion dealing with court-ordered school busing in Detroit, Justice Lewis Powell is quoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keyholing the Supreme Court | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...should take this new development joyfully, but cautiously. Everything can always flipflop overnight," he added...

Author: By Jill FRIED Lander, | Title: Professors Urge Cautions Optimism Towards New Relationship With China | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...legislation could be a staggering blow to the economy, which is already burdened with an unemployment rate of 6.9% and inflation of 6.5%, and is expected to face some trouble in 1979. Said Thomas Dernburg, senior economist for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee: "The vote was an amazing mental flipflop. No one would consider raising the income tax with the economy in this state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Saving Social Security | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...eagerly embracing almost all of Reagan's positions and promising to disavow the previous pro-labor stands that had made him a darling of the AFL-CIO, Schweiker came across as an opportunist. He spent most of his time in the campaign vainly trying to explain his complete flipflop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNERS & LOSERS: Some Soared, Some Sank | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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