Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's wrong with this picture? When George Fisher became the head shutterbug at Eastman Kodak four years ago, things instantly looked brighter for Big Yellow, the world's largest photographic filmmaker. Fisher, who dialed up a triumphant turnaround at cellular-phone and microchip giant Motorola, planned to re-vitalize stodgy Kodak (1996 sales: $15.97 billion) with a burst of digital-age products. Instead of bloody downsizings, Fisher would restore Kodak's faded glory through the magic of growth...
...glance, adding former Warsaw Pact allies of the Soviet Union to the ranks of the triumphant NATO alliance seems a good idea. After all, the argument went, these were the captive nations, now freed, and they deserve the advantages of membership, including the guarantee that an attack on any member will be considered an attack on all of them...
Going into this semifinal match, Harvard and Brown had split their previous two encounters during the season. In Harvard's second tiring five-game bout of the tournament, the Bears avenged their Harvard Invitational loss to the Crimson with a triumphant game record...
...campaign to warn the world of what he sees as dire threats emanating from Beijing. He is convinced the leadership intends to control Hong Kong so tightly that all its current economic and political freedoms will disappear. While Tung was struggling to defend his unpopular proposals, Lee enjoyed a triumphant tour of the U.S., including a symbolically important chat with President Clinton. Lee's Democrats threatened to mount protest marches on hand-over night in deliberate violation of the proposed restrictions and tie up the courts in a skein of lawsuits if Tung refuses to rewrite the offending amendments...
Harvard's greatest achievement remains crystallized in the UCLA game: its perseverance and its ability to face adversity and emerge renewed and triumphant. It's not a conclusion to a season, only a bridge, and a fitting commencement to the end of the school year...