Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America's trade troubles mark a startling turnaround. For a century, between 1870 and 1970, the U.S. enjoyed a virtually uninterrupted string of trade surpluses. The 1970s brought deficits, but they could almost totally be blamed on high-priced oil imports from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. U.S. exports continued to expand, and as recently as 1980 the trade gap was an uncomfortable but tolerable $36.4 billion...
...last year's housing market, compared with just 13.5% in 1981. The newcomers helped push the 1983 housing-start rate to 1.7 million homes, compared with an anemic 1.06 million level in 1982, and thus can claim some credit for last year's vigorous homebuilding turnaround...
...reports a turnaround...
Other factors also contributed to the faculty turnaround. When Graham became the school's new dean in 1982, she said, "We must increase our efforts to understand and to improve those institutions whose primary activity ought to be education--namely, the schools...
Senior Gaylord Lyman (.207) will take care of second. The Kanerohe, Hawaii native--Nicknamed Pineapple--fields impeccably, but he has struggled with the bat. The key to an offensive turnaround could be a good start down South. "The past three years I've been struggling down in Florida," he says. "I'm looking for a change...