Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrival of the cranes is symbolic of a 180 degrees turnaround in China's attitudes toward birds and indeed much of its wildlife. In 1959 Mao Tse-tung, then Chairman of the Communist Party, declared a "people's war" against the despised "four pests": rats, flies, mosquitoes and, especially, sparrows, which he said consumed too much of the nation's farm crops. Entire villages took to the road, yelling lustily, banging on pots, pans and gongs, and lighting firecrackers; the sparrows were frightened from their roosts and not allowed to realight. Recalls Chinese Ornithologist Tao Yaokuang, who was forced...
...high-court turnaround came in an obscure case from San Antonio, where the local transit authority challenged the U.S. Labor Department's right to apply federal wage and hour rules to overtime payments of its bus drivers and other employees. A U.S. district judge concluded that public transit was one of the core local functions protected under the 1976 Supreme Court ruling, and that the wages and hours of transit workers were therefore immune to federal regulation. In overturning that finding, Justice Blackmun wrote for the court majority that various federal tribunals had failed utterly to agree on which local...
Indeed few would have guessed beforehand that the Crimson would suffer such a turnaround in one weekend...
Harvard did cut the lead to 48-44, and had a shot to trim it to two. But Bob Ferry's turnaround jumper with 25 seconds to go hit hard off the backboard. The ensuing fight for the rebound then set off the fight...
...murders that ended in 1981, and his name became known across the U.S. In Houston he is now a local superstar. Initially, despite a doctorate in criminology from Berkeley, Brown got a cool reception when Mayor Kathy Whitmire named him chief in 1982. But he has engineered a remarkable turnaround in a department that for years had a national reputation as brutal and racist. Brown "just took charge and started getting things done," says Larry Troutt, an aide to Whitmire's chief challenger in the past mayoral election. Brown was not a campaign issue, says Troutt, because "across the board...