Word: tailspins
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...company will try just about anything. Sambo's, which has 1,117 restaurants in 47 states, is now even trying out a new name (No Place Like Sam's) at more than 100 of its shops in the Northeast in an attempt to reverse a four-year tailspin. The company, whose restaurants serve everything from pancakes to hamburgers 24 hours a day, has also changed ad agencies and revamped its menus...
What had gone wrong for Silverman, whose shrewd instincts once earned him the sobriquet the Man with the Golden Gut? Answer: a combination of great expectations, poor management and bad luck. When Silverman took over the network, too many people-himself included -believed he could reverse the tailspin with little more than some savvy program shuffling. But there were few winners to shuffle, and no Dallas-size megabits that can help a network vault from third place to first. Says Ethel Winant, Silverman's vice president of mini-series and novels-for-TV: "You can't snap your...
...movie gets underway, we realize that we have actually missed most of man's grimmest hour. Christianity has penetrated deep into the British backwoods, while the monster population has taken a perilous tailspin. Only one winged geezer remains, living quietly for the most part with a litter of dragon cubs. Understandably, even one fire-breathing creature has the locals a little unnerved, especially since once a month, their ruler picks a young maiden to be fed to the beast. Thus the search for a savior begins, setting up the required battle of good versus evil...
...tailspin is not incorrectible." Holton concluded, but he added. "the scale and variety of our efforts must be enlarged...
...rattling had a clear purpose: to intimidate Solidarity, the independent trade-union movement that has become increasingly bold in its demands for political liberalization. But what may have been a better guide to Soviet intentions was nearly drowned out in the alarmist din. With the Polish economy in a tailspin, the Soviets last week gave their suffering satellite $1.1 billion in hard-currency credits and $200 million in commodities. Most analysts believe Soviet military intervention is a distant last resort, to be used only in case of serious disturbances or a total breakdown of party control. Jozef Klasa, chief spokesman...