Word: u-turn
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...closely fought Georgia primary last month, Bush nailed the equivalent of a triple flip when he pronounced the 1990 budget compromise the biggest mistake of his presidency. To make matters worse, he virtually admitted that cynical political calculations had dictated the latest U-turn. "Listen, if I had to do that over, I wouldn't do it," he told reporters. "Look at all the flak it's taking." Bush was less than convincing when he announced, while campaigning in the South a few days later, that "life means nothing without fidelity to principles...
...members of the E.C. altered course last week. President Bush hinted that he would recognize the republics, provided independence was achieved peacefully. In Europe, where public sympathy for the secessionists runs high, Germany made the sharpest U-turn. "Countries cannot be held together by tanks and force," said Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He warned Belgrade that an attack on Slovenia or Croatia could affect German economic aid to Yugoslavia, which last year totaled $550 million. Britain, France and Italy are also considering joining the Western swing toward recognition...
...highly publicized Baby I bust, Leto stayed away from his house and offices, which DEA agents were watching. One day in March 1990, he happened to drive past a DEA team running another surveillance in Queens. As the agents started tailing him, he whipped his Acura into a fast U-turn and melted into the traffic. The next thing the agents knew, Leto was back in Colombia -- where his luck ran out. At the request of the U.S. government, police arrested...
...write her memoirs, Thatcher said, vowing to "fight on. I fight to win." But this time the Prime Minister found her troops deserting all around her. In the end, Thatcher, who had once quipped to fainthearted Tories, "You can turn, if you wish. The lady is not for turning," had no choice but to make her last U-turn for the sake of party unity...
...breakdown in talks left Bush exactly where he did not want to be: severed from his "no-new-taxes" pledge with nothing to show for it. Darman calculated months ago that Bush could survive the political hit for his U-turn on taxes if in return he solved the deficit problem. As an Administration official admitted, "We got suckered. Now we're in the same place we were three months ago except we've taken a 10-point hit in the polls...