Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stood in the mid-70s only a month ago, plummeted 10 to 15 points. It was, said a senior Administration official, "the worst week of his presidency." The outpouring of criticism reflected long-held doubts about Bush's approach to domestic affairs. G.O.P. strategists complained that the President's flip-flops had weakened the widespread perception that Congress is more responsible for the budget fiasco than the White House. Complained a top adviser to the President: "We've managed to change the subject from 'Can the Congress pass a budget?' to 'Why isn't the President leading...
READ his lips. President Bush--still dizzy from a week of flip-flopping on the budget--is now saying again that he opposes new income taxes. But times have changed since his earlier (and since-broken) campaign pledge. Congressional Democrats now can regain the initiative in American politics by supporting new income taxes. President Bush either will have to support a tax hike for the wealthiest Americans or become the ultimate bad guy in the budget battle...
Conservatives are huffing and puffing and threatening to blow the House down over Bush's flip-flop on "no new taxes". A similar outcry over his environmental duplicity is well-overdue...
...flip-side of Starr's advocacy of companies' rights under copyright laws is his campaign against false advertising and for consumer rights...
Rabbit's retirement has put him out of touch with his family. He watches Judy "channel-surf," flip through the remote control without ever watching anything, as if she is on a different planet. He also cannot figure out what is wrong with his son Nelson, who is displaying the obvious symptoms of a drug addiction...