Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some conservatives to sweep away the graduated income tax altogether. Even as he introduced the Kerrey-Portman bill, Archer, who supports a national sales tax, said it was just a holding measure "until the great day comes when we can abolish the income tax completely." A White House flip-flop on that one would be something...
...five years earlier; now you can own Chevron and Mobil that way. Disney's move to reinstate direct purchase most likely will have influence outside its industry as well. CEOs of all stripes will probably conclude that it must have good reason--beyond the p.r. pop--for the flip-flop...
...essence, buying in bulk, admits Michael McCaffery, CEO of the investment bank Robertson Stephens. "The immediate premium of 15% or 20% is an accepted convention." But evaluating untested companies, he adds, is difficult; the rewards we ogle in the newspaper come with considerable risk that the company will flop, leaving its bankers holding...
...clear. ("Term limits have been successful at bringing new faces into politics. Less clear is whether they're making any practical difference.") And when the paper tries to get hip, the results can be just clumsy. A self-consciously trendy Sunday styles section, launched in 1992, was an embarrassing flop. (It will be relaunched later this year, with a stress on service pieces and fashion...
...formula. The well-acted, heart-tugging Promised Land, created by Williamson, has Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) taking his newly destitute family around the country in a trailer, helping others find faith. Aaron Spelling, who first traded angels in low-cut blouses for the spiritual kind with his 1994 flop Heaven Help Us, came up with the cruelly slow-paced 7th Heaven. It stars Stephen Collins as a minister in a troubled extended family whose members seem to do mean things to one another just so they can ask for forgiveness...