Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flip-flop on the rebate cost him some support. Many people had already made plans for spending their rebates. A few Congressmen felt betrayed. But most congressional leaders applauded Carter. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd said the President had made a "wise decision." Liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York called it "prudent and courageous...
...have been puzzled by the bald heads and bulky bodies behind the Golden Arches last Friday. No wonder. At a store in San Diego, Founder Ray Kroc, 74, handed over French fries to waiting customers; in Baltimore, McDonald's president, Edward Schmitt, 51, picked up a spatula to flip burgers. It was "store day" at McDonald's, and from Portland to Pensacola, executives left their offices to don paper hats and hustle behind the counter...
McCall probably first earned his national reputation as an environmentalist, not a prankster. During his eight years in office, moderate Oregon banned throwaway bottles and flip-top cans, liberalized its abortion and contraception laws, and began a policy prohibiting development of the state's 300-mile coastline. McCall--and many other Oregonians--wanted to save the state from the anarchistic growth that California and other states had experienced in the preceeding years. The state tightened up environmental regulations--so much that some heavily-polluting factories had to be closed--and discouraged all but clean industries from settling there...
...Americans. Instead of tax cuts, labor wants more Government spending to create jobs. Said Meany, who never lets his own $90,000 salary deter him from hurling a good, populist line: "I don't see why people in the upper brackets should get $50 that they can flip at the first headwaiter they...
...flip side of Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn": "The Pathetic Pygmy...