Word: turnarounds
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...turnaround in relations with Boston occurred shortly after Grogan’s arrival to Harvard, leading some to charge that Grogan has been able to use his political ties in Boston to push the University’s future development interests across the river, while putting less emphasis on Cambridge...
...Tchuruk, though, clearly has ambitions to be more than an also-ran. Brought into the company as chairman in 1995 with a reputation of something of a turnaround artist - based on his previous stints at France's Total in the early 1990s after returning CDF Chimie, a French chemicals company, to profit - the 64-year-old Tchuruk has aggressively remade Alcatel since his arrival. Inheriting an unwieldy conglomerate with operations in everything from atomic power to vineyards, Tchuruk stripped the company down and shifted its focus squarely on the telecom business. Among his moves was to go on a buying...
Though Houston no longer relies so heavily on the energy business (down to 48% of the local economy from 82% in 1982) the turnaround sure feels good after the city lost more than 15,000 energy-sector jobs two years ago, says Barton Smith, director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston. It has gained those jobs back, plus some. Says Smith: "The current boom is what's keeping Houston afloat while the rest of the country is suffering...
...work he's already done. He's telling the business community, essentially, to lay off the layoffs - things will pick back up soon enough. And to consumers, he's saying keep those spirits up - 4.5 percent unemployment still isn't that high, he's on the job, and the turnaround is coming...
...lead the turnaround...