Word: flopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gingrich warms the Speaker?s seat, anyway. And that?s good news for the White House, says TIME correspondent Jay Branegan. ?A few weeks ago, Gingrich was vowing to fight hard against Big Tobacco; now he?s back on their side,? says Branegan. ?The White House see this flip-flop as evidence that the Republicans are in the pocket of Big Tobacco, and they?re really pleased...
...carriers say the start-ups flop because they are undercapitalized and poorly run, offering limited routes and flights, with no frequent-flyer clubs and other features. It is a circular argument, of course. The low fares of the upstarts are based on a cost structure that doesn't have such extras as frequent-flyer programs. And the big airlines force them to burn through their start-up capital by stepping up the price wars...
...Four Seasons, Life and the Soho Grand were calling. Oy stress! While Dr. K certainly made the rounds, she skipped over the get together at Flamingo East. Good thing too because rumor has it that the Visionaire event hosted by Gucci goon Tom Ford was a total flop-o-la! All in all, Dr. Know had a tip top time in NYC and a hangover to put in the record books. It's nice to be back in sleepy Crambridge with all you kids...
...another player in the El Nino drama is a cycle in the tropical Atlantic that involves a flip-flop between twin pools of water--one warm, one cool--that sit on opposite sides of the equator. Depending on the configuration, farmers in northeastern Brazil could either suffer greatly at the hands of El Nino or feel very little...
...almost think that's worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving rise to her bovine theory of "why men flip-flop from passion to panic until they finally disappear." Just as the Cow device begins to wear thin and vengeful excess looms, Zigman reigns in her prickly impulses and serves up an ending that feels cathartic and true...