Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev, too, remains to be seen. Conceding that difficult months face the Administration, particularly on enacting tax reform, one of its strategists seemed to be stretching for a rosy perspective. Said he: "We can still make it if everything, but everything, goes smoothly." That would require quite a turnaround from what has so far proved to be a rough second term...
...centuries, cities were an irresistible magnet for internal American migration. In the 1970s, however, that path was reversed as nonmetropolitan areas grew by 14.4% and metropolitan areas by 10.5%. Since 1980, however, that "rural turnaround" has again turned around, with metro areas growing faster than non-metro areas. But one aspect of the 1970s trend endures. "People are moving to smaller, less crowded communities," says Peter Morrison of the Rand Corp.'s population research center, "particularly those with a population under a quartermillion." Notes Bryant Robey, founder of American Demographics: "America's past has been one of steady centralization...
...turnaround in U.S. policy came after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Overnight, Pakistan was much more essential as a U.S. ally. In 1981 the Reagan Administration offered President Zia a six-year, $3.2 billion military and economic assistance program. The U.S. also agreed to sell 40 advanced F-16 fighter-bombers, which, like most high-performance military aircraft, could carry nuclear weapons. In approving the assistance, Congress attached a rider that the aid would be cut off if Pakistan exploded an atomic device or came into possession of one. That rider expires, along with the aid package, in 1987. Says...
...state, his personal popularity apparently wrought no magic. Reagan's Bitburg visit probably did not harm the Chancellor's cause, but it certainly did not help as much as Kohl had hoped. The defeat also betrayed a widespread impatience that the Chancellor's long-promised economic Wende, or turnaround, has not fully materialized; indeed, in February, national unemployment soared to a postwar high of 10.6%. To make matters worse, Kohl's protege, Bernhard Worms, was trounced in the race for North Rhine-Westphalia state leader by Incumbent Johannes Rau. With his moderate views and good-natured disposition, Rau may eventually...
...hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda and bourbon and water, but you just don't hear that much anymore. There's been a big turnaround...