Casting the right spell can often mean the difference between a flier and a flop.
Apple itself launched a pen-based tablet computer, the Newton, in 1993, but it was a flop.
Mere weeks later, Hollywood heavyweight George Clooney followed suit with a flop of his own, Leatherheads.
They proved a flop with fewer than 50, 000 units sold over the following year.
And it was the very first single he recorded for them, but it was a flop.
While Microsoft and its fans might not want to admit it yet, Windows 8 is a flop.
Consumers have voted with their wallets and now it is official that Windows 8 is a flop.
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Then it, too, imploded when the iPhone came along and its smart phone offering was a flop.
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Despite its bold-face producer and sometimes-star Hugh Jackman, the musical casino drama Viva Laughlin was a flop for CBS .
Video on demand might be a flop, but there is a chance that it will be a bonanza.
But it was only a flop in a time when most offerings didn't bother to risk the embarrassment.
Seward was a success and Bryan a flop, but it was the end of the line for both.
New internetIPOs have sky-high revenues and unproven business models, so the results can be fab or a flop.
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The Kin launched to much fanfare, but seems to be a flop.
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It was initially judged a flop when the stock slumped on its debut but has since doubled in value.
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There's supposed to be a flop, a fissure, a detour in the mania.
When, in March 1928, the charismatic preacher Hassan al-Banna founded the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, it was a flop.
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Of course, that increases the chances that the company will eventually produce a flop, something it has not yet done.
According to reports, such as this one in eSchool News, the effort in Peru has largely been a flop.
Disney's Chinese epic Mulan has proved to be a flop with audiences in the animated heroine's birthplace, according to reports.
An emergency rights issue by HBOS was a flop: only 8.3% of the British bank's shares were taken up by investors.
By contrast, some media folks and analysts continue to refer to the Sun acquisition as a flop, a bomb, a whiff.
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Market experts expected that Trakhk would be a flop, but they grossly underestimated the willingness, indeed eagerness, of small investors to participate.
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Even the PlayBook, which is built around the QNX software RIM will begin building into its handsets next year, is a flop.
First spotted cramping in a flop sweat, it's Swinton who really gets her hands dirty and sells her soul to the devil.
In their present mood, if Britons are given a vote, the constitution may be as big a flop as Jemini's off-key singing.
Yes, sometimes you just get a flop (Russell or Carr) and sometimes an unexpected event comes along to kill an endorsement portfolio (Vick).
The Sabres find themselves in a position of holding a trade-deadline fire sale because the high-priced roster Regier assembled has been a flop.
Opposition leader Mr. Ozawa Ichiro may have lots of ideas for reforming Japan, but he has turned out to be a flop as political tactician.
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