Word: turnaround
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...course, the turnaround did not come about overnight. Murphy’s first three Harvard teams finished 3-7, 4-6, and 2-8, respectively, and not one managed more than two conference victories...
...squad sails through tomorrow in the team race national championships before, with little turnaround, sailing Wednesday through Friday in the fleet-racing dinghy championships...
That Kerkorian doesn't even drive a GM car suggests he may not be in love with the goods. Loaded down with excess factory capacity, waning SUV sales and crushing health-care liabilities, the company is no quick turnaround play. So you have to wonder, What is he thinking? Kerkorian isn't talking--he has been virtually silent with the press since 1971. But there was no shortage of speculation on Wall Street and in Detroit. The scuttlebutt: that Kerkorian will try to force GM to spin off its lucrative financing unit, GMAC; that he will try to line...
Whatever Kerkorian's motives, associates say his intentions are clear. "Kirk tends to be a long-term investor, and don't let the fact that he's 87 fool you," says friend Mason, suggesting that Kerkorian will wait patiently for a GM turnaround. Says Ralph Whitworth, a financier who worked with Kerkorian in the '90s: "He's not a control freak. He just likes to get good returns...
Graham explained that publishers give a very short turnaround deadline for writers to proof galleys—the last opportunity to make changes before a book goes to press. “Probably outside writing the book, it’s the moment in the life of the book when you obsess most about it,” she said. “You don’t become E.L. Doctorow without obsessing over your prose...