• In 1947 Gottlieb began a revolution with Humpty Dumpty, the first game with finger-operated flippers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Michael Phelps has traded in his swim flippers for a set of golf clubs.

    WSJ: Michael Phelps: From the Pool to the Golf Course

  • Here is a perfectly silly story on house flippers in the March 14, 2005 issue of Time magazine.

    FORBES: Silly Top Signs

  • Then, not too long ago, I saw CNBC and people were leaving their jobs to become real estate flippers.

    FORBES: Should You Pare Back on Growth Stocks?

  • So, will U.S. burger-flippers be able to run to a dealership anytime soon and roll home in a brand-new Tata?

    FORBES: Tata in Tacoma?

  • In the past few months, fast food and pub firms have announced plans to create thousands of new jobs for burger flippers and bar staff.

    ECONOMIST: Employment

  • Soon Cowden pleaded guilty and was working with authorities, looking for a deal that would spare him prison by turning on mortgage brokers, home flippers, lawyers and bankers.

    FORBES: Prosecutors Wanted LIFE Sentence for Mortgage Broker in Pittsburgh

  • Connected by a tether, submerged 20 feet, are spring-loaded flippers.

    WSJ: A New Wave of Ocean Explorers | Marvels

  • In 2005 Time ran a cover story on house flippers.

    FORBES: Are Stocks Range-Bound?

  • In most areas this broadened ownership (thought to be a social good), and in several markets it invited a bidding war for scarce properties or a speculative gambit for flippers.

    FORBES: Mispriced

  • That does not stop the 250 or so people who turn up every year to navigate its brown watery depths with the aid of a snorkel and flippers (and maybe a flamboyant costume).

    BBC: Ireland's most offbeat festivals

  • But experiments using EEG have allowed people to do simple things like pressing buttons on a computer screen by moving a cursor and clicking it, and operating the flippers on a pinball machine.

    ECONOMIST: Bionics (I)

  • In hot spots like Las Vegas and Florida, real estate flippers have discovered that a modest down payment and a little patience can net them tens (even hundreds) of thousands of dollars in profits, sometimes tax-free.

    FORBES: Silly Top Signs

  • Something was needed to break the humdrum of months of days with only two to three hours of sunlight and nothing to do but read really long sagas on Norse mythology while munching on salted seal flippers.

    NPR: Whole Foods to Sell Exclusive Icelandic Delights

  • However, despite physical challenges, Laurel is seen using her front flippers to hoist her large, heavy body onto the top of the barrier, before wobbling slightly and eventually toppling over the fence to the other side to meet Togo.

    BBC: Seal scales fence to reach pup at St Andrews Aquarium

  • Yet before long it is hard to feel much sympathy for anybody involved save the judge, Mr Justice Bell, refereeing two mind-numbing years of argument about rain forests, litter, the cooking temperature of hamburgers, exploited hamburger flippers and so forth.

    ECONOMIST: Libel

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