Word: turnarounds
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...survived--even through the dark days when NBC was being derided for having lost Letterman, who initially drew great ratings on CBS. "The scariest thing was when Dave came on that first year," he says. "I really had to question all of my instincts." He attributes the late-night turnaround to his having pushed Leno to evolve "from a talk show to a comedy hour...
Gelman, a major reason Harvard is in the midst of a program-best 10 game winning streak, turned in yet another superb performance. Whether she was dishing to an open teammate or backing down her Princeton counterpart for a turnaround jumper, Gelman was unstoppable. She finished the game with 11 points and 11 assists...
Yesterday saw a 40-point turnaround between the top two teams at the Eastern Women's Swim Championship, held at Brown University...
...cruelest injustice, however, involves public transportation--because jobs in Erie County, as elsewhere around the country, have been migrating to the suburbs, where they often become inaccessible to inner-city blacks. Several new industrial parks north of Buffalo, for example, have roads that are too narrow and have no turnaround room for the cumbersome buses that ply big city routes. Kenneth Cowdery, who runs a job-training center in Buffalo, says he saw more than 100 jobs go unfilled last year because his mostly black clients couldn't find a way to get to work...
...turnaround would be no small task. The German-born Spindler, 53, known as "the Diesel" for his drive, was himself brought in as a miracle worker by Markkula, when Apple's share of the personal-computer market hovered at 9.4%. Now it is just 7.8%. The company was hard hit last year by the arrival of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which mimics the look and feel of Apple's Macintosh computers but runs on IBM-compatible machines that are cheaper...