Word: turnabout
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Some of the Club's new proposals for global controls and planning were highly questionable, but its basic turnabout was laudable. A world threatened by starvation and widening economic imbalance between nations must have development, not stagnation, of industrial and natural resources. Moreover, in an economically shrinking world without growth, political freedom would almost certainly disappear, giving way to regimes that ration not only goods but people's lives...
...That done, he says, the Club could then seek ways to close the widening gap between rich and poor nations-inequities that, if they continue, could all too easily lead to famine, pollution and war. The Club's startling shift, Peccei says, is thus not so much a turnabout as part of an evolving strategy...
...controversy flared anew when Allen Weinstein, a respected historian from Smith College who had tended to believe Hiss innocent, did a complete turnabout. After examining 15,376 pages of FBI files that he had pried loose in a Freedom of Information suit last year and additional papers that Hiss instructed his lawyers to make available, Weinstein declared: "Hiss has been lying about his relations with Chambers for nearly 30 years . . . Others who once believed in Alger Hiss may now be persuaded that he stole the documents in question and that Whittaker Chambers told the truth...
...falls in love with the cozy scene and an attractive woman he observes through a bungalow window. He insinuates his wares and himself into the woman's dwelling and finally marries her. Gradually the view through that window to the world outside comes to seem irresistibly attractive. This turnabout is slapstick, but the problem behind it is not belittled by O'Faolain. Both the dealer and his new wife learn something about the treachery of fulfilled desires before their struggle is over...
...Civil War and the other major party in the common front, had much to lose by the agreement. The PSOE had previously hoped that several years of illegality for the Communists would give it a chance to make inroads in organizing the working class. The Socialists, in this tactical turnabout, apparently believe that the circle surrounding Juan Carlos will be composed largely of Francoist hard-liners, and that the unity of the left will be necessary to move Spain toward the most basic democratic forms...