Word: turnarounds
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...later professional endeavors (including the script of an unfunny 1980 hardcore porn comedy, "Randy the Electric Lady"), the sweetest surprise waiting for Southern fans in "A Grand Guy" is the revelation that he remained a productive and prolific writer during his "invisible" years. Though project after project went into turnaround, and ideas were hatched that seemed doomed from the start, Southern did produce completed screenplays for all of them. Some of the most valuable passages in Hill's book offer tantalizing glimpses at these heretofore unseen scripts, including a project instigated by Peter Sellers about a meek, mild-mannered Pentagon...
...This is a dramatic turnaround for the Bush administration, which until recently had solidly backed the Pentagon?s insistence that the Navy could not afford to lose one of its most unique and vital training grounds...
...company's CEO, Mike Wood, isn't troubled by making money off a manufacturer's misfortune. "When you have a headache, the aspirin is not taking advantage of you," he says. By helping clear excess inventories more quickly, "this kind of service could contribute to a turnaround." And if it does, Wood is well placed to continue making money during an economic expansion, when higher unit prices for goods sold on his site would offset any decline in excess-inventory volume...
...while implementing detailed reforms is not Blair's strong point, he will slog through it in the service of a historic goal: "We have to be the new Victorians - believing in progress, believing the country can be great again, turning around its trajectory of decline." Does he think the turnaround has begun yet? "No. But I think we could, in a radical second term...
...first Ivy team in two years to beat the Quakers. Clemente did not have his usual shooting touch the following night against Princeton, but that didn't stop him from scoring when it counted. He took the game into his own hands in the final minute, knocking down a turnaround jumper with 7.4 seconds left to give Harvard a one-point lead. But Kyle Wente's one-handed three-pointer at the buzzer saved the game for Princeton, which went on to win the Ivy title...