Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip-flop match, freshman George Polsky, playing number five for the Crimson, fell to Navy's Mark Nicholson in five games. With the match tied at 2-2, Polsky and Nicholson battled back and forth, before Nicholson pulled out a hard-fought 15-11 match...
...flip side of Gephardt's natural feel for the legislative compromise is, as former Administrative Aide John Crosby puts it, a tendency "to be all things to all people." Gephardt is overtolerant, too slow to judgment. Other than anti-Reagan boiler plate, criticisms rarely pass his lips. Even some loyal aides concede that he has flitted from issue to issue in a way that reduces his effectiveness. Last week longtime Spokesman and Confidant Don Foley resigned from the campaign because of friction with Campaign Manager Bill Carrick. But Gephardt has often relieved subordinates by kicking them upstairs. "If I have...
Harvard added a goal in each of the next two periods. With 13 minutes left in the second frame, Ted Donato watched the puck bounce off the boards behind the Brown net and fall onto his stick. He gave a quick flip of his wrist, and zipped a shot past Harvey...
...Shultz would agree that the U.S. should slow development of the President's cherished space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Shultz would not oblige him, and the summit appeared to be off. But after seeming to brood about the matter for a few days, Gorbachev performed an amazing flip-flop: he dispatched Shevardnadze to Washington with a letter for Reagan that put the plans back in motion. Said a Soviet-affairs expert: "This is a real embarrassment for him. He's had to fly Shevardnadze here just to deliver the mail...
NATION: In a surprising flip- flop, Gorbachev agrees to a Washington summit...