Word: turnabout
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...Viet Nam was succeeded last week by his lofty Tulane speech consigning the tragedy of Viet Nam to history and calling for "a great national reconciliation." Earlier his battle against inflation became his battle against recession, though in that case events as well as second opinions helped produce the turnabout. Basically, conflicting demands are being made of the President. "He faces a peculiar dilemma," says a mayor who has met him. "The country wants a human, open, responsive, all-American-fellow President. At the same tune it needs a strong, dynamic leader...
...barring a sharp turnabout in congressional opinion this week, there seemed to be almost no chance for more military funds for Saigon. "I think the American people and the U.S. Congress figure that $150 billion under five Presidents is enough to spend in that part of the world," said Mike Mansfield in typical understatement. Democratic Senator John L. McClellan, a longtime Viet Nam hawk whose Appropriations Committee would have to approve the military aid request, expressed a prevailing congressional view: "I think it's too late to do any good. Further military aid could merely prolong the conflict and perhaps...
...Boston, All-New England, All-Ivy, All-American, All-World, All-Universe...The list of All-Everything teams seems to stretch forever. And after watching writers rate players for the All-this and All-that teams all winter long, the Crimson gives fans a turnabout with a rating of sports writers, on a collegiate basis anyway, with The Harvard Crimson All-Ivy sportswriting Team...
...curious turnabout took place once the story did become public: the CIA had nothing more to say about Jennifer. The formula seemed simple if slightly surreal: "We'll tell you something if you won't tell anybody; now that you've told everybody, we won't tell you anything...
...favor. In a recent survey, the American Chemical Society found that newly graduated women chemists and chemical engineers are being paid on average 5% more than male graduates. A decade ago, women entering chemistry were earning only 86% as much as their male counterparts. The society says that the turnabout is probably the result of more intensive bidding by employers for women chemists to make up for "years of unequal employment practices...