Word: turnaround
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...spent my life doing what you are doing, working in the real economy," he told the ValPak workers in Largo. "I understand something about jobs because I had jobs." Behind him hung a bunch of messages on signs that he debuted after his first loss in Iowa: "Economic Turnaround" said one. "Washington Is Broken," said another...
...That's quite a turnaround from the doomsday predictions made in the early '90s. It was less than two decades ago that the country's crime wizards were warning of a unprecedented, bloody spike as a super-predator generation - kids armed with equally menacing weapons and attitudes - inflamed gang and drug wars; murders hit over 2,000 in New York and nearly 1,000 in Chicago during the early 1990s. Many theories for the decline over the past decade and more have been floated; from the Freakonomics suggestion that legalizing abortion effectively wiped out a population of would-be criminals...
...With the Registrar sometimes requiring final grades less than a week after the completion of an exam, courses face a tight turnaround for completing grading...
...nanosecond, women who had swooned for Obama did a double take for Clinton. In Iowa, Obama had tidily won female voters, 35% to Clinton's 30%; five days later, those numbers flipped, and Clinton carried women, 47% to 34%. More striking still was the turnaround among unmarried women - somewhat snottily referred to as the "spinster" vote - whom Obama had won by 13 percentage points in Iowa. That demographic swung 30 points in Clinton's favor in New Hampshire...
...native Michigan with his new-old campaign themes in place. On the surface, at least, the campaign will stick to the messages they turned to after their defeat in Iowa: competence and change, no longer his conservative credentials. "The governor's experience as a solution-oriented guy, a turnaround CEO, is a particularly good fit in Michigan," says his national spokesman, Kevin Madden. "We can win there with a focus on the economy and showing the governor is someone who can lead on job creation and the global economy." Alex Castellanos, a senior strategist for the campaign, painted their seven...