Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what they termed their "lingering suspicions" that the State Department's initial backing of the U.N. resolution reflected a growing influence of a pro-Arab group of policymakers in the Administration. Vance denied this was the case. And once again Vance took full blame for the flip-flop on the resolution, saying that his department had failed to follow Carter's wishes...
...first told West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that a boycott was not being considered. Carter changed his mind, and Bonn was given only two hours' notice before the boycott was announced. Said a West German diplomat of last week's Security Council debacle: "The U.N. flip-flop is just one more piece of evidence to support Schmidt's contention that West Europeans must look out for themselves, and protect themselves as much as possible against the effect of these Carter fiascoes...
...movie or TV show always involves considerable risk. But the real high rollers are in the theater, and opening night in Manhattan is always a kind of crap game. Within two hours the play is either a success or a flop. Either way, years may have gone into the production, and the story behind the play is often more interesting than the play itself. To find out what goes on, TIME's Elaine Dutka spent three weeks behind the scenes of William Hamilton's Save Grand Central, a comedy of manners in which two couples find happiness...
Among the Democrats who want to succeed him, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. deserves commendation for raising important issues and advancing interesting proposals; his record on energy is one of innovation and intelligence. But his inexperience and tendency towards opportunism--the notorious flip-flop on Proposition 13 being the most worrisome example--limit his attractiveness as a candidate...
...decade just ended left behind a great many fresh reminders of why prophets have always had difficulty winning honor on their own turf. The forecasting about the 1970s turned out to be a pathetic flop. Virulent inflation and an epochal energy crisis are only two of the most ominous realities that eluded the visions of virtually every forecaster. Moreover, the failure was marked by far more than the understandable inability to foresee all the astonishments to come; many, perhaps most, of the positive projections also turned out to be dismally wrong. To mention only one, the twinkle-toed, bell-bottomed...