Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans' goal is to win back the 26 House seats lost to Democrats in the '82 election. Such a turnaround, they believe, will give Reagan working control of the House, since many Southern Democrats ("Boll Weevils") can be counted on to support the President. It would take a change of 51 seats to give the G.O.P an actual majority, an unrealistic prospect considering the large number of entrenched Democratic incumbents. The Republicans confidently assume they will maintain control of the Senate, where they now hold a 55-to-45 edge...
From the moment Challenger leaped heavenward on Oct. 5, NASA officials felt unusually optimistic. The turnaround time of five weeks since the last shuttle flight (the maiden voyage of Discovery) was the shortest yet and exactly the interval that NASA had set as its longterm goal. What is more, the lift-off was by far the smoothest in the program, occurring only forty-three thousandths of a second late. "A very spectacular flight," beamed Shuttle Operations Director Thomas Utsman, "a very clean count...
...speech to over 400 people gathered in the Business School's Burden Hall. John Sculley, Apple's chief executive officer, said the computer was responsible for Apple's turnaround in its "life and death struggle" with...
...turnaround in the Cornell program began seven weeks into last year's schedule, when the Big Red won its first game of the year and the first of a season-ending three...
...information and by the performance in office of Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte, the Senate, by a 69-to-29 vote, granted Reagan's request for $117 million in supplemental military aid to El Salvador for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. In a surprise turnaround two days later, the House voted 234 to 161 to approve $70 million of the Administration's request...