Word: flipped
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...Affirmative action and racial justice are [major] issues. The longest a president can serve is a tiny fraction of the [average Supreme Court justice's tenure]. The amount of power that the Supreme Court has is much greater, for better or for worse. We're one vote away from flip-flopping on the law of the land on issue after issue...
...experience a series of events in real time versus people who receive a complete description of the same events at a later point in time. According to Barron, the fallacy applies in many situations, including simple scenarios such as casino games like roulette or even something as mundane as flipping a coin. For instance, Barron said that if a fair coin were flipped five times and by chance landed on heads all five times, a person who had witnessed the series of flips would be more inclined to choose tails on the sixth flip. This person thinks that since...
...ailing grandmother, the woman he affectionately calls "Toot," at her apartment on Beretania Street, before retiring to a hotel on the city's touristy Waikiki strip. By daylight, he was again at the Beretania Street apartment, emerging at one point, dressed in a black polo shirt, dark-glasses and flip-flops, walking pensively and unsmiling along the unsteady and overgrown the sidewalk on nearby Young Street before the crowding press forced him back into the privacy of his grandmother's home. He did not issue any statement and did not speak to journalists hungry for any kind of word...
...above all other superheroes?I really liked the design of Batman. I liked the concept. There's a lot more you can do with Batman than most other superheroes. Like Superman. Superman's basically an omnipotent god. Batman is the flip side of that, which is a lot easier for people to relate...
...Such pain is the flip side of globalization: the world is now so interconnected that trouble in one place, especially somewhere as economically powerful as the U.S., can and does easily spread elsewhere. For a while, Turks - like Chinese, Brazilians, Indians, Hungarians and others - thought their buoyant domestic growth could insulate them from a downturn in the U.S. and Western Europe. Now they're discovering that it can't. "A lot of us gave credence to 'decoupling,' " says Ümit Boyner, who together with her husband runs a big Turkish retail empire. "Looking ahead, we're wondering...