Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that two things went into our turnaround this year," coach Tim Murphy said. "One, the kids who played as freshmen and sophomores came of age. And two, we played an attacking style...
Where Gilmartin is today is atop Merck & Co., the fastest-growing of the world's major pharmaceutical companies. Since joining Merck as CEO in June of 1994, Gilmartin has overseen an epic turnaround in the century-old giant. Last year, he led the $114 billion company to 45 percent return to shareholders, and Business Week ranked Merck number one in its industry--and sixth overall--among the Standard & Poor's 500 corporations...
...rebel leader Laurent Kabila and at the same time help to extricate some 100,000 Rwandan refugees from the path of the rebellion. After months of resisting U.N. air evacuation of refugees on the grounds that it would disrupt troop movements, rebel leader Laurent Kabila made an abrupt turnaround Sunday and gave the U.N. just sixty days, starting May 1, to track down and evacuate every last refugee. After Sunday's maiden voyage carried just 40 refugees from Kisangani to their destination in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Richardson's first priority will be to coax some cooperation...
...rivalry of the guiding outfits encouraged recklessness. Hall's successful Adventure Consultants was being crowded by newer ventures, notably the Mountain Madness service of Scott Fischer, a skilled American climber. There was powerful pressure for them to ignore their turnaround times, beyond which it was foolish to continue heading upward. Fischer told Krakauer that if Pittman reached the summit, she was certain to boast about it on New York talk shows...
Climbing continued after May 10. An American, Ed Viesturs, who was making a movie for IMAX, reported passing the bodies of his friends Fischer and Hall. One other death, a South African whose colleagues let him climb past his turnaround time, brought the fatalities for the season to 12. If that number is compared with the 84 people who summitted, Krakauer observes dryly, "1996 was actually a safer-than-average year...