Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Campeau, who already owns the Allied Stores chain of 286 retail outlets in the U.S., hiked his offer. Tired of being tugged in two directions, Federated set last Wednesday as a deadline for final bids. But the two sides kept sweetening their offers even beyond the cutoff, and Federated flip-flopped between choosing Campeau or Macy...
...have to be winning to be scrutinized--unless as Joe Biden learned, another candidate has it in for you. The white candidates who supposedly have been under the gun of scrutiny so far all were doing well at the polls at the time. Gephardt's trade policy and his flip-flopping on the issues--notably abortion--came under fire only after his victory in Iowa. Gary Hart drew the spotlight of the Miami Herald because he was the front-runner. Paul Simon was quizzed on how his budget would add up only after he edged out Dukakis in Iowa...
...dead heat, it's a flip of the coin," said Bob Burns, a spokesman for the Jackson campaign in Milwaukee...
Since the media felt it had the right to delve into Senator Joseph Biden's plagiarism in law school and to ridicule Rep. Dick Gephardt's record of flip-flops in the past decade, it has the responsibility to apply the same standards of scrutiny to Jackson...
...They go in front of the meter and turn the dial around until it goes to zero. If it has two to five minutes on it they give it one good flip or more," Chandler says, adding "I don't look out for it. I just see it in passing or look out the window and see them doing...