Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of the turnaround effort early last week, Clinton took to the heartland. In a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he mentioned the middle class no fewer than 10 times and later that day revived his campaign promise of a middle-class tax cut. With great ceremony, he was presented with a bowling ball and a shirt embroidered with his name. At a photo-op back in Washington, he demonstrated the power of volunteerism (read: no government spending) by helping to mow and clean up a park in a rundown neighborhood...
...Class of 1997, however, marks a dramatic turnaround from last year. A record high 143 Blacks will join the Harvard first year class in September...
...exactly, does Clinton do that? The first step, a White House aide suggests, "is to adopt ((Louisiana Senator)) John Breaux's prescription." Breaux is trying to live up to the injunction of Clinton political adviser ) James Carville, who preaches that a lasting turnaround in Clinton's fortunes depends on rediscovering "what we're about." In other words, Clinton has to tack back to the center; he has to embrace, in law, the proposals that got him elected in the first place. Breaux understands the public's antipathy to taxes of any kind and, for openers, wants the President...
...This committee's been working for six to eight months now and it's only coincidental that it coincides. It was a rapid turnaround, but I can't give you the exact timing sequence," she said...
...record number of Black matriculants this spring marks a sharp turnaround from last year, when an exceptionally low percentage of Black students accepted admissions offers. Ninety-four of 172 Black students admitted matriculated to the Class...