Word: turn-around
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...team sailed into the N.B.A. playoffs last week with a 61-21 record, the best in the league. They won 32 more games than they had in the previous season, the largest turn-around in the N.B.A.'s history. Boston's attack is so balanced that only Bird ranked among the league's top 20 scorers, but seven others averaged in double digits. Says Don Chaney, 34, whose career at guard and forward with the Celtics spans nine years: "There is more unselfishness on this team than on any I've ever been...
...production is especially galling for the once mighty international oil firms, which for decades controlled both the price and the quantities of oil that moved in world markets. Instead of dictating terms to their suppliers, the companies now find themselves reduced almost to the role of bystanders. The turn-around in oil trade began shortly after the 1973-74 oil embargo. The Europeans and Japanese, growing uneasy about leaving their energy supplies dependent upon the Seven Sisters, began scouring the world for government-to-government oil deals. These permitted their national petroleum companies to buy directly from the producing countries...
With 13:50 left, Harvard seemed to have jumped in front on a miraculous Walter Diaz turn-around shot from 50 feet that appeared to loop over Friedman into the back of the goal. No such luck. The ball instead, landed on top of the netting behind the goal-line...
After 16 minutes Walter Diaz banged a turn-around shot that Frehling gratefully cradled in his arms. Ten minutes later, John Sanacore's long throw-in floated untouched in front of the Green goalmouth; moments after that. Walter Diaz dropped the ball to sophomore Mauro Keller-Sarmiento who steered a ground shot wide of the left post...
Only one minute later at 16:38, Keller-Sarmiento netted the ball on a similar shot. He trapped a pass from Mike Mogollan, and banged a turn-around right-footer that sizzled past the out-stretched hands of the URI goalie into the far side...