Word: turnabout
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...scare into the other networks, stealing several major-market affiliates as well as CBS's Sunday-afternoon pro-football franchise. The number of alternatives, on both cable and broadcast stations, keeps growing, and the remote control has made them easier than ever to find. Indeed, the networks' recent ratings turnabout was due largely to special events like the Winter Olympics, and there's no guarantee the audience erosion won't resume this fall...
Barrett has repeatedly stressed the deathpenalty as the critical issue that separates himfrom Roosevelt--and used Roosevelt's turnabout onthe issue as a dig against his rival...
...start of the turnabout may fairly be dated to the night Rivera saw the original version as a guest of Kander and Ebb. Like the critics, she wasn't enchanted: "The stage was so big that the tension just went bye-bye, there was so much space between the two men in that cell." Tactfully, her hosts did not tell her she had been considered, and passed over, for the title role as the fantasy creature of the decorator's reveries. Having cast an actress a generation younger, they belatedly realized they needed, as Rivera laughingly phrases it, "a diva...
Like Schwartz, millions of Americans may be ready to switch from impulse buying to panic saving, driven in part by fear of layoffs. That turnabout would be rich in irony. After years of being exhorted to save money and reduce debt, consumers who finally do that are likely to find their newfound thrift hobbling the recovery...
...staff may not feel so charitable. They are still smarting from the wholesale firings and worried about their own futures -- as well they might be, in the face of rumors that Zuckerman has been talking to a couple of Newsday staffers. Many News reporters also resent McAlary for his turnabout and take even less kindly to the appearance in the newsroom of the key editors from the competition...