Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real world, every silver lining has a cloud, and DreamWorks faces a few. The world entertainment market could go limp, from a recession or from software exhaustion. Or the company could make flop movies and records. The HBO deal, which was touted as a billion-dollar windfall for DreamWorks, is tied to box-office performance; if the films are dogs, HBO will pay considerably less. And what if all goes poorly? The team's investors could demand that their money be returned before S, K and G get paid for their two-thirds equity stake...
Last month, the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) government of Quebec launched 18 commissions to drum up public support for sovereignty. In what was to have been an explosive first month, the commissions have proven to be the latest flop in a series of failed attempts to kick-start nationalist passions. Only 38.5 percent of Quebecers in a recent survey indicated that they were "paying a lot or some attention" to the commissions. One source reported that in the midst of "many tough questions" on separation, the commissions produced "few clear answers." Support for sovereignty hovers...
...Soul concert was such a flop that thecouncil waited two years before holding anotherlarge show...
...really expect Jared [Leake], Dan [Morris] and me to foul out," senior guard James White said. "But Dave [Demian] and Mike [Scott] did well and we stayed right with it--it was a flip-flop type of game...
...been backstage drama aplenty, as the mercurial composer sacked not one but two leading ladies, and snubbed New York by opening the $13 million American production in Los Angeles last year. No doubt, legions of Lloyd Webber haters would love to see the infuriatingly successful British interloper have another flop like his last Broadway outing, Aspects of Love...