Word: turnarounds
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...prototype of the VentureStar called the X-33 is scheduled to fly in 1999, the finished craft in 2006. NASA and Lockheed claim that the innovations will shrink the shuttle's price-per-payload-pound from $10,000 to $1,000, slash repair and inspection costs and reduce turnaround time from weeks to days. Goldin envisions fleets of VentureStars launching satellites, hauling material back and forth to space stations and ferrying tourists into orbit. "Many people have aspirations of going into space," he says. "They should be able to live those...
This sort of narrative turnaround usually provides the pleasure of surprise, the sense that poetic justice has foiled a malevolent act. Moore quickly cuts off such easy certainties. He shows the old man examining the possessions of his would-be murderer. They include a printed statement identifying the intended victim as "Pierre Brossard, former Chief of the Second Section of the Marseilles region of the Milice, condemned to death in absentia by French courts, in 1944 and again in 1946." The statement goes on to say that Brossard was charged with the massacre of 14 Jews on June...
...turnaround has been spurred by active volunteer fundraising efforts in Boston and New York and on the west coast, Boardman said. According to Development Office figures, the efforts in conjunction with this year's reunions have paid off with record- setting performances by alumni...
These past two summers have witnessed a remarkable turnaround in the University's record in cutting deals with its biggest unions...
...Manning made what Finklea termed a "360-degree turnaround" at the final round on June 19 at the Local 26 offices on Berkeley Street...