Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Islanders' turnaround began with the addition of three players. Gord Lane, a defenseman known as one of the most crushing checkers in the N.H.L., was acquired in a trade before Christmas. Lane erased the Islanders' reputation as a team that was soft on the boards. But it was the arrival of Ken Morrow, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), bearded defenseman from the gold-medal-winning U.S. Hockey Team, that sparked the Islanders' postseason resurgence. Morrow, who could become the first man ever to win Olympic gold and a Stanley Cup in the same year, bypassed...
...this season, his best in the N.B.A., added 355 assists and blocked 140 shots. In one computer survey, he was rated the most productive and consistent player in the league. "I thought the reputation I had built up over all these years was slipping away," Erving said of his turnaround. "It is important to me to be recognized as one of the best players in the game...
...turnaround at Tarrytown grew out of the realization by local management and union representatives that inefficiencies and industrial strife threatened the plant's continued operation. Automakers sometimes use forced plant closings caused by sluggish auto sales to unload a lemon facility. Ford, for example, decided two weeks ago to shut the gates of its huge Mahwah, N. J., plant largely because it had a poor quality record. After Tarrytown lost a truck production facility in 1971, bosses and workers became fearful for their jobs and got together to find better ways to build cars. At first hesitantly but later...
...played our best game of the season by far," McLaughlin said yesterday. Sixty-two per cent from the floor tells the whole story. To explain the turnaround. McLaughlin assumes the role of mother, Father, psychiatrist and cheerleader...