Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rosenberg says the Zone's turnaround began 12years ago amid furor over Puopolo's murder. Atthat time, the city started a serious clean upeffort...
...Third World radicalism and bureaucratic waste. Few critics have been more severe than the U.S., which for the past three years has put a squeeze on the 159-member organization by withholding most of its $215 million annual dues as part of a campaign to force reform. Thus the turnaround could hardly have been more dramatic last week, when the Reagan Administration reversed the policy that had made it the world organization's biggest debtor. "The U.N. is directly serving long-term objectives of this Administration to end regional conflicts and advance peace and freedom around the world," declared White...
Takeshita's task was made easier by an abrupt turnaround in the balance of trade between the two countries, another source of irritation to Beijing. In 1985 a flood of Japanese consumer goods into China ballooned trade between the two nations to $19 billion, with Japan enjoying a $6 billion surplus. Since then China has cut back on imports and dramatically increased exports to Japan. For the first six months of 1988, trade was up to a record $10.3 billion, but now China enjoys a $530 million surplus...
Responding to public outrage over the Horton incident, Dukakis signed a new law last April banning furloughs for first-degree murderers. Explaining his turnaround, Dukakis said simply, "I try to listen, I try to learn." But the Governor still becomes testy when confronted with the question. During a debate in San Francisco, conservative Journalist John McLaughlin charged that Massachusetts' program allowed convicts to commit more violent crimes. "That's not true," Dukakis exclaimed. "That happened on one occasion...
...course, this turnaround is ominous to conservatives, who fear that Reagan has become senile in his old age and is no match for the skillful Gorbachev. The new reforms, they argue, mask Gorbachev's plan to revive the stagnant Soviet economy and rival our technological capability. What they fail to realize is that a paranoid Soviet Union presents a greater threat to world peace than one that openly recognizes its past atrocities and encourages the expression of different views. An economically weak military superpower would be more likely to play off its area of strength; so America should welcome relations...