If a system's reachability characteristics are incompatible with the given prediction question – if, say, "hit" and "flop" states in the online market example are both fairly likely to be reached from the CSS – then the situation is deemed unpredictable.
Since share flotations would flop, the state will need to find "anchor" investors.
But China runs it close in the dissatisfaction stakes: "the worst Olympic flop" scolded state media as the national team finished a lowly … third.
"We have seen the governor waffle and flip-flop," State Senator Gil Cedillo, Democrat of Los Angeles, said in a conference call with reporters last week.
A year later, an attempt to launch Blondie's Debbie Harry as a solo artist flopped, a state of affairs not aided by the fact that the single, Backfired, didn't have much of a tune, and an effort to give Johnny Mathis a Chic Organization makeover wasn't released at all.
A bistable is also called a flip-flop on account of its two stable states or the way it can flip or flop from one state to the other.
Segregating the sick into "high-risk pools" — the oxymoronic Republican solution — has generally flopped in states where it has been tried.
That year, Collins, taking his cue from electronics, constructed what's essentially a toggle switch in E. coli a circuit involving two genes that could flip-flop between states.
Once re-elected, despite a very vocal request from the American Public that he make good on campaign rhetoric by issuing an Executive Order banning the use of the neurotoxin, President Bush flip-flopped by stating his Administration would continue to knowingly and purposefully inject mercury into children until at least 2009.
Amid all this upheaval, an ill-timed bid by Iraq's Kurds to create an independent state flopped badly.
