Word: turnarounds
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Most important, unemployment has dropped from an alarming 12.6% when Jospin took office to 9.8%, still appalling by U.S. standards but a substantial improvement. The turnaround has also shifted the public mood from a decade-long depression into an exuberant optimism. Says sociologist Robert Rochefort, head of the CREDOC, a Paris-based think tank: "We have seen a spectacular return of confidence, a sort of alchemy in which everything seemed to turn from lead to gold...
...Prestifilippo had a magnificent final season to conclude a brilliant Harvard career. "Presto" had a sterling 2.86 goals-against average and backboned Harvard's big turnaround at the end of the year...
...sudden turnaround? Research has been piling up for years supporting the NHLBI's position, according to TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "Systolic pressure can show what's happening throughout the circulatory system, rather than only within the heart itself." For example, Smith explains, a systolic reading not only shows the force the heart is required to exert in order to push blood past resistance points, it also measures the pressure generated within vessels to keep blood moving to different organs - which can pinpoint a patient's risk for stroke or general damage to blood vessels...
...pressure, the Iraqi people have rallied behind their "fearless" leader. Meanwhile, as sanctions have decimated the Iraqi people, they have shattered the few institutions that could have harbored and sustained opposition against Hussein's government. But although the sanctions are now working in Hussein's favor, much of this turnaround is due to factors that are out of his control...
...persuaded long-time rival WILLIE NELSON, who was forced to pay $9 million to the agency in 1993, to surrender his grudges. "Everything's wonderful with the IRS," said the country-music legend as his tour bus blazed across the South. "I would say it's a 100% turnaround as far as I'm concerned. After they came in and took all my stuff that time, they've managed to be real nice...