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Cable channels have long been a key economic pillar by generating billions of dollars in cable distribution fees that more than covered up the misses when big-budget movies flopped or during advertising recessions.

But then the whole body was lifted free, and flopped lifelessly in the arms of the rescuers.

Some of those decisions paid off, while others - including a failed telecom venture and the Nano, which was billed as the world's cheapest car but flopped - lost money.

As Democrats have used the issue of reproductive rights to galvanize voters, Trump has flip flopped on the issue.

Born in Michigan and raised in Glendale by devout Baptists, he became conscious of “the shame and the degradation” of poverty when his father’s business ventures flopped.