Word: turnaround
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...Conway, a turnaround expert with the firm Conway and McKenzie in Birmingham, Mich., says Ford's $26 billion debt could still prove troublesome, and hefty interest payments will cut into the company's ongoing profitability. But one antidote to heavy debt is a healthy stock price, which Ford increasingly enjoys. The stock is up from about a buck last November to a recent price of $7.30 per share, and in May, Ford was able to raise $1.6 billion through a common-stock offering of 345 million shares. GM, by contrast, is hoping to do an IPO next year. (Read "Despite...
...student achievement, Duncan's tenure was most notable for his willingness to try anything, regardless of ideological association--expanding charter schools, paying students for good grades, experimenting with teacher merit pay and shutting down failing schools and reopening them with new staffs. He's still keen on such controversial turnaround strategies. In late August, he announced another competitive grant program that uses $3.5 billion in nondiscretionary funding in an effort to fix the nation's worst schools...
...most obvious reason for that disconnect is jobs: despite the signs of a turnaround, unemployment remains stubbornly high at 9.7%, with employers cutting 216,000 jobs in August. While jobs always trail economic rebounds, the unemployment number is higher than economists thought it would be, even in the worst-case scenario forecast by the Treasury Department's stress tests last spring. The point is not lost on Republicans, some of whom have argued lately that no more of the stimulus money should even be spent. "The metric of this bill was job creation," says Don Stewart, spokesman for the Senate...
...There’s something kind of liberating about cheering for a bottom-dweller team. The late-’80s Braves were at the bottom of their then NL-West division, before making their turnaround in ’91. Perhaps the “aughts” are the ’80s for the Padres and they’ll be turning the ship around in the teens. They certainly have the young talent to do that. Guys like Adrian Gonzalez, Kevin Kouzmanoff, and Chase Headley provide some pop in the lineup, assuming the Padres can hold...
...times and does not really try to introduce the economic reforms that may ease the problems of unemployment and the lack of affordable property. Spain had bad unemployment in the 1970s but right now it looks even worse after the bursting of the construction bubble - and there is no turnaround in sight. Mariano Ferrando, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN...