Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flip side of her passionate commitment and shatara (an admiring Arabic word for intellect and savvy) is an arrogance that makes her bluntly impatient with anyone less smart, less quick, less decisive. She can assume too much and forget who really is boss. After she independently agreed with Baker in Madrid that Washington would be the venue for bilateral talks with the Israelis, Yasser Arafat himself slapped her down. "Who appointed you," he reportedly asked, "Baker or me?" (She is careful to admit no connection to the P.L.O...
Voyager's software displays the text on clean white pages that replicate the design of the hardback rather than using the scrolling strings of text so familiar to computer users. A touch of a button turns the page or allows the reader to flip back and forth. Users can dog-ear the corner of a page to mark their place, or attach an electronic paper clip for easy reference. Passages can be underscored or marked on the side, and there are generous margins for putting down notes...
...closely fought Georgia primary last month, Bush nailed the equivalent of a triple flip when he pronounced the 1990 budget compromise the biggest mistake of his presidency. To make matters worse, he virtually admitted that cynical political calculations had dictated the latest U-turn. "Listen, if I had to do that over, I wouldn't do it," he told reporters. "Look at all the flak it's taking." Bush was less than convincing when he announced, while campaigning in the South a few days later, that "life means nothing without fidelity to principles...
Personally, I'm bullish on America. For all our problems -- which are considerable, to put it mildly -- we've become leaner and meaner, and our quality has improved. Exports are up. Technology races along. And the flip side of the real estate collapse is the prospect of low rents -- bad for landlords and lenders, good for business and consumers. Hopeful signs...
...Bush had had an extramarital affair -- she had a point. Why has Bush not been questioned incessantly about his son Neil's involvement with a savings and loan association that failed because of unsound banking practices? About his knowledge of possibly illegal and unconstitutional Iran- contra activities? About his flip-flops on abortion, taxes, Saddam Hussein and many other issues? About the widepread impression that he has no strong beliefs about anything except his own ability to fill the Oval Office? The answer, probably, is that Bush has been around long enough for people to feel they know as much...