Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade turnaround was a long time coming, but there are finally some signs of change. Between 1982 and 1986, the value of Japanese exports jumped from $138 billion to $211 billion, partly because of the yen's 50% rise against the dollar. In 1986 alone, Japan's trade surplus rose 79% from the previous year. But last spring it began to come down. By July the surplus was nearly 15% lower than the same month the year before. Meanwhile imports, spurred by growing domestic demand for ever cheaper foreign goods, were up 30% in August, compared with that month...
...this dramatic turnaround? "We're doing a better job of getting out the message on how well women's colleges train women for careers," asserts Nicole Reindorf, the WCC's associate director. Graduates of women's colleges, she points out, generally outperform their coed counterparts. For instance, a 1985 survey of 5,000 women's school alumnae found that nearly half had earned graduate degrees (vs. one-third for all graduates from coed institutions). Of women listed in Who's Who in America, women's college alums outnumber coed- school graduates by more than 2 to 1. And the bottom...
Harvard held O'Leary to just 20 yards rushing, and nailed him several times behind the line of scrimmage. Linebackers Richard Mau (16 tackles, one sack) and Kris Thabit (12 tackles) were largely responsible for the gridders' turnaround from a 10-point first-quarter deficit to a seven point lead at the intermission...
...broader question of public morality. In a speech before the conservative American Enterprise Institute that touched upon public obscenity, he declared, "One of the freedoms, the major freedom, of our kind of society is the freedom to choose to have a public morality." Bork's supporters say that turnaround shows his willingness to evolve philosophically. Opponents say it is the intellectual expediency of a man more provoked by the sight of obscene words than by signs reading WHITES ONLY...
Perhaps the greatest surprise has been the turnaround in the once gray and stilted Izvestia. The official government newspaper is selling 8 million copies a day, up from 6.7 million two years ago, thanks to its transformation under Editor Ivan Laptev into a lively collage of reporting and commentary. "For Soviet readers, Izvestia is the most interesting newspaper around," says Ogonyok's Biryukov. In early August the paper published an interview with a military officer whose duty it is to push the launch button at a nuclear missile center. Never before had a Soviet publication reported in such detail...