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Word: turnaround (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferry's three-pointer from the right side upped the lead back to four points and his subsequent turnaround shot eight minutes into the game increased Duke's lead to 19-13. Harvard cut the lead to five (22-17) before a Robert Brickey dunk brought the Blue Devil alumni to their feet and ignited...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: M. Cagers Be-Deviled by Duke, 98-59 | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

...turnaround came after pay raise opponents mustered a 238-88 majority against a House Democratic leadership motion to adjourn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wright Allows House Vote on Pay Raise | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...turnaround jumper by Frazier increased the margin to three and his two free throws in the last ten seconds clinched...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Quake Under Penn Attack, 67-63 | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Thailand, host to the rebel factions and the refugees, joined the blitz. In a startling turnaround from a policy of refusing to talk to Phnom Penh, the new Prime Minister, Chatichai Choonhavan, invited Kampuchean Prime Minister Hun Sen for discussions in Bangkok, possibly to start as early as this week. + Before, says an ASEAN diplomat, "Thailand and ASEAN wouldn't have touched Hun Sen with a 10-ft. pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kampuchea Is Peace at Hand? | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...turnaround may not have been quite 180 degrees, but it was close enough -- and sudden enough -- to qualify as a mighty abrupt about-face. After first insisting that his government could find nothing to substantiate U.S. charges that West German companies helped the Libyans build a chemical-weapons factory in the desert outside Tripoli, Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week admitted that Washington might, after all, know what it was talking about. He changed his mind, Kohl said, after the government examined "certain documents" that had been "seized in the past few days." As prosecutors opened a criminal investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany On Second Thought | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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