Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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TIME: This question may seem flip, but it's not. Have you seen the new Details magazine? It may be the first time that you're in a magazine with the word douchebag on the cover. JINDAL: Are you allowed to say that on TIME.com...
...fronts. Romney accuses Huckabee of being soft on immigration because as Arkansas governor he supported extending college scholarship to the children of illegal immigrants, and others have said his record shows he is open to raising taxes. Romney, though, has his own problems: many conservatives have labeled him a flip-flopper because he was once pro-choice, though he now says he was wrong on the issue and wouldn't uphold Roe v. Wade...
Pacing through the funereal gloom of his empty factory, Yazegi glances up at the silent machinery and says, "All I need is for the Israelis to let me have the fizz. The workers will come back. We'll flip the switch and start right up again." And that would make life for the Palestinians of Gaza just a little sweeter...
...They distrust the governor, and for good reason. The press prints him as the flip-flopping Mormon from Massachusetts. Pundits deem his political discipline robotic: he’s incapable of emotion, they warn, and driven by self-interest. When Romney has shown otherwise, he’s pulled a fast one on us—ever the salesman, always shifting his stances...
...this charge that Romney will say and do anything to get elected ignores the fact that he never has flip-flopped on his supposedly largest liability: his Mormon faith. Attacks on his religious beliefs and news of evangelicals declaring their opposition to Mormonism haven’t caused Romney to convert. Rather, he declared in his speech, “Faith in America,” last week, “Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they are right, so be it.” With the Iowa caucuses (where voters...