Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fisher's personal photograph collection is a testimony to his extensive work in Central America. One six-by-eight color photo displays Fisher in the company of Oscar Arias, the Nobel laureate and president of Costa Rica, and the flip side shows nearly a mirror image, only this time Fisher is with the president of Guatemala. Turn to a nearby print, and you'll see Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is fixing you a stare...
...COMPARISON to Silber, Frank Bellotti is just another politician. Throughout his relatively undistinguished career as lieutenant governor and, later, attorney general, Bellotti has chosen his positions with one hand measuring the winds of public opinion and the other covering his behind. In one of the most monumental flip-flops of Massachusetts politics, Bellotti--who brought a landmark parental consent case to the Supreme Court that would have severely restricted access to abortions--now says he supports the right to choose. And in a double flip-flop, Bellotti started his political career in 1964 as a supporter of the death penalty...
There is enough room on the wall for a picture of Saddam Hussein. In what pose, exactly? a Bush adviser was asked last week. "Dead would be nice," he replied -- a flip remark that nonetheless reflected both the situation's seriousness and an outcome the Administration would welcome...
Martinez will need his war chest to help him overcome an unfavorable performance rating among voters that peaked at 62% in June. Hobbling the Governor are two well-publicized gaffes, a flip-flop on a controversial tax in 1986 and a resounding defeat in the legislature when he tried to push through new restrictions on abortion rights last fall. But Republicans, including George Bush, have stuck by Martinez, largely because Florida is too important to the G.O.P.'s goal of capturing the South to risk abandoning an incumbent Governor. Last year the G.O.P. gained a majority in Florida's congressional...
...Illinois paralegal unseated a seven-term incumbent for the G.O.P. nomination to a statehouse seat -- by the toss of a coin. Mulligan, an abortion advocate, and pro-lifer Penny Pullen tied in the March primary. A court ordered the coin flip. Mulligan chose tails. Pullen is appealing...