Word: turnarounds
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...justices could rule early this week, given the speed with which the court has already moved on this case. (The record time in recent years is a four-day turnaround from oral arguments to ruling in the 1971 Pentagon-papers case.) Judicial experts offer three scenarios...
...subject of Greil Marcus's new essay collection Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives. Marcus, a rock-n-roll critic best known for lively volumes on Elvis, Bob Dylan and the Sex Pistols, pinpoints Clinton's appearance on Arsenio Hall as the turnaround of his 1992 presidential bid. Considered a sure loser against Bush and Perot, Clinton swaggered on stage with his tenor saxophone, wailed a few bars of "Heartbreak Hotel" and instantly won enough support to capture the White House a few months later...
...fact, Chrysler was never the company Schrempp thought he was buying, a curious miscalculation for a man who wants you to have no doubt that he knows everything there is to know about business. From near failure in 1991, the Detroit automaker had staged a sensational turnaround to become a market leader with its minivans, Jeeps and Dodge Ram trucks. More important, it had become the lowest-cost auto producer in the world...
...into shape. Not only are these machines imprecise, they are also fantastically expensive and hard to come by. A start-up company that wants to manufacture parts for a new product may have to wait two years for a press to be built and delivered. Not exactly the quick turnaround time we've come to expect in the age of silicon...
...Crimson will be hard-pressed to match the seven-goal total from the ECAC playoffs last year, however. The Saints appear to be much improved from last year's team, and history would indicate that a dramatic turnaround is not impossible. Case in point--Dartmouth was crushed by Harvard 8-1 in the 1999 ECAC Semifinals then came back to beat the Crimson three times last season...