Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American Express's turnaround surprised everyone, including H. Spencer Nilson, publisher of the Nilson Report, which tracks spending on credit cards. Nilson is impressed that Amex was able to "come away with any kind of stabilization." He applauds the company for its "significant advances in improving product line and in growth of cardholders and volume. I would not have given them any chance of doing that several years...
...single-day percentage gain, jumping 25.98 points, or about 7 percent, to close at 385.80. Rallies on Saturday (yes, this is a market that trades on Saturday) and Monday more than undid Friday's plunge, when the Composite sank 7 percent to a 10-year low. What caused the turnaround? The catalyst seems to have been a series of statements over the weekend by South Korean leaders, who vowed to "fully implement the agreement reached with the IMF" - even as students marched in Seoul to protest the "humiliating" bailout...
...hitting 12-foot, turnaround jumpers at one end of the floor and wreaking havoc in the paint at the other. When she nailed a trey from the left wing with three minutes to play in the game to give Harvard a 16-point lead, the Crimson's bench erupted and Feaster back-pedaled past her teammates and pointed at them in recognition, a la Michael Jordan...
...directing these players was Murphy, who finally had a team composed solely of his recruits. The skipper had the golden touch this year; it was amazing to watch his third-and fourth-down playcalls work again and again. Harvard's dramatic turnaround resulted in his being named New England Division I Coach of the Year...
Harvard has already shown quite a turnaround from last year. Convincing victories over Army and Boston University show the Crimson to be much more organized than it was during the early part of the 1996 season...