Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commitment to be the carrier of choice." The silver-and-blue makeover is having the desired effect. Profits and passenger levels are inching steadily back up, and the airline currently stands at fifth-largest. But for the gate workers, the ticket agents and the mechanics at BWI, the turnaround is exacting a painful price...
...Bulls' fourth-quarter strategy is to dump the ball into Jordan. But he's missing. He's missing on the tongue drive from the wing, missing on the turnaround from the baseline, missing on the spot-up threes...
...demoralized and skeptical Millstone rank and file to help him weed out problem managers. (Both an NRC Special Project Office and an "independent corrective-action-verification team" of industry consultants will oversee the work; plant restart will require a commission vote.) This reorganization, Kenyon declares, "constitutes the largest management turnaround in the history of the nuclear industry...
...campaign finance investigation to look into "soft money" donations. Fearing that any probe woul d wind up biting them as well, the GOP leadership had previously rammed through a deal that would limit Thompson to investigating only "illegal activities" that took place during the 1996 race. The Republican turnaround was spurred by the growing re alization that, while the White House fundraising scandal certainly looks like a mess, it is not clear whether laws were broken. If not, Thompson's committee would not touch the White House. According to Janet Reno's interpretation of the law, finance restrictions...
...wiped out through liquidation of these companies." The big question is whether a new tax program announced by the government--equivalent to a whopping 2% of GDP--is too strong a medicine. If not, said Courtis, "in six to nine months there will be a dramatic turnaround in the Japanese trade position, the export sector will grow, and investors will see the budget deficit getting much bigger." But Courtis warned the plan could backfire: "The Japan problem isn't over. If they raise taxes too much, the economy is going to crater...