Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials have cited four explanations for the school's financial turnaround...
...environmentalists crowded around him, laughing and applauding. "This is the heart that pumps the blood," said Graham of the river. "Our goal is, by the year 2000, the water system will look and function more as it did in the year 1900 than it does today." And with the turnaround, naturalists predict, the fledgling cypress will grow up to 30 ft. tall...
...days Dobrynin could sometimes get 24-hour turnaround messages straight from Leonid Brezhnev. He had a private phone line from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a special parking place in the State Department's basement. All that stopped with Reagan's Administration. Dobrynin now goes in the State Department's public entrance. And so cold are U.S.-Soviet relations that it matters less whether Dobrynin has the instant ear of the Politburo...
Ironically, the Air Florida bankruptcy comes just as the airline industry seems to be on the mend. After operating losses totaling some $1.2 billion since 1981, scheduled U.S. carriers could earn more than $1 billion this year. That turnaround reflects shrunken payrolls and the dramatically improved economy. Nonetheless, some airlines, like Republic and Western, have continued to struggle. Says former Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Mar vin Cohen: "It's possible there will be a further shake-out in the industry...
...craft, some looking grim and weary, others with grins and wisecracks. To their bitter disappointment, they were told that they might as well head home for the weekend. Admitted Thomas Utsman, director of shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center: "This will not be a one-or two-day turnaround...