Word: turnabout
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...arrested one Moscow-based Yankee businessman on what seem to be trumped-up charges and angrily publicized bizarre details about the activities of a CIA agent who had been expelled from the U.S.S.R. last summer. Moreover, a commentary in Pravda blasted the President for endangering peace by engineering a "turnabout" in U.S.-Soviet relations and for meddling in Soviet internal affairs by his human rights campaign. At his midweek Washington press conference, Carter had vowed to continue speaking out in support of individual Soviet dissidents and to do "the best we can to acquaint the world with the hazards...
...Governor's turnabout amused his opponents, among them Attorney General Evelle Younger. He will take on Brown in November, having roundly defeated three other Republicans to win the G.O.P. nomination. Said Younger: "I swear he sounded just like Howard Jarvis...
Despite these troubles, McAfee is convinced that Gulfs investments in increased exploration and production will eventually pay off. McAfee is under no illusion that the company's problems can be resolved soon. Gulfs turnabout, he says, should be about complete when he is ready for retirement at 65?and that is not for another 3½ years...
Today, in a remarkable turnabout, a growing number of Americans have begun looking for a better way of dealing with the dying. In their search they have reached back to the Middle Ages, when religious orders established hospices (derived from the Latin word for guest) to care for travelers as well as ailing and dying pilgrims. Within the past few years, 130 groups have organized hospice programs, and about 20 institutions recognized by the newly formed National Hospice Organization (N.H.O.) are operating in the U.S. Unlike the way stations of the past, the present-day hospices provide more than attentive...
...turns out, that hypothesis was mostly hyperbole, the outgrowth, perhaps, of fantasies spun by helpless Russians who in fact could scarcely utter a whisper against the system of mass police terror. Gulag HI marks a judicious turnabout: "The Communist regime has not been overthrown in sixty years, not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West...