Word: turn-around
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...Harvard squads he has coached. The question mark, and it's a biggie, is the overall inexperience. But with the first Ivy game not until January 6th against Brown, the young team should settle down against non-conference opposition, including four games against Division 2 teams. In a crucial turn-around from last year, 12 of this season's first 15 games will be in the friendly confines of the IAB, where the Crimson went 8-3 last winter...
...September, the lowest since April. Meanwhile, Commerce Department figures show that the economy as a whole expanded at an annual rate of 1% during July, August and September. Whether or not that poky growth can be taken as proof that the recession has passed, it does represent a sharp turn-around from the previous three months, when the nation's output of goods and services plunged at a record annual rate...
...John Pershing, then 80, into endorsing Roosevelt's destroyer deal with Britain, helped write Pershing's speech, then in print praised it. Similarly he and his colleague James Reston flattered the vain old Republican isolationist Arthur Vandenberg into supporting the United Nations in 1945, and wrote the turn-around speech that Vandenberg read to the Senate. And, of course, praised...
...sagging Daily News mounts a mighty turn-around drive...
...Republicans call for a firm stand against Soviet aggression and for higher defense spending. But the Democrats, in a dramatic turn-around from their 1976 platform, which insisted on military budget cuts, also urge the strengthening of U.S. defenses. Both parties, in fact, blame each other for letting Pentagon expenditures lag. Both also favor building the MX missile, though a sizable minority of Democrats were bitterly opposed. The Democrats fault the Republicans for emphasizing the "primacy of power politics" at the cost of American principles. The Democrats also call for more aid to the Third World: "It is unacceptable that...