Word: flips
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...There is, however, a very ugly flip side to that, which Greenspan will be sure to mask in the most oblique language he can muster...
...flip side of Archie," is the way Lear describes Maude. "She is a Roosevelt liberal who has her feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...
Even if Firestone tires were made of bicycle inner tubes patched together with bubble gum, vehicles are not supposed to flip over at highway speeds in the event of a tire blowout [BUSINESS, June 4]. Who is the automaker trying to fool? Let's not forget that the fine people at Ford are the ones who sold the American public the Pinto. "Safety is job No. 1"? Sorry, Ford, but you have completely lost my confidence. JON POPE Warwick...
...flip side of that strategic coin are the settlers, who have little to gain and much to lose from a resumption of the peace process. After all, the basic premise of the peace process has been that the Israelis will withdraw from some or all of the West Bank and Gaza (depending on which side you listen to), and that prospect is fundamentally threatening to a settler movement whose principal objective has always been a permanent Israeli presence in those territories. The deal offered by Barak at Camp David last year would have ultimately involved Israel abandoning a significant number...
...well that's the flip side of going ahead without a negotiated agreement. President Bush will certainly try to prevent that happening. The trouble with land-based multiple warhead missiles is that they're a very tempting target for a nuclear first strike, and therefore raise the level of nuclear tension...