Word: turnarounds
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...Harvard struggled to a 7-19 record. In 1994-1995, senior captain Tammy Butler---Harvard's greatest women's basketball player ever--led a 180-degree turnaround. The Crimson (19-7) was the Ivy League runner...
...deal, worked out in secret talks between senior U.S. and Cuban officials, infuriated anti-Castro activists in Miami and their supporters in Washington, and two veteran U.S. diplomats requested transfers off the Cuba desk. But in another turnaround, the agreement will also permit some 15,000 Cuban rafters now being housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to come to the mainland, and some Cuba experts are hopeful that if Castro keeps his end of the bargain-mainly by not persecuting any rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the future-the icy relations between Havana and Washington...
...voice vote at 5 o'clock in the afternoon" to protect Republicans who support him from their right flank. "It's a triumph," says Mike McCurry, White House press secretary. "The fact that he's gone from dead-on-arrival to having a chance at confirmation is a stunning turnaround. Maybe every once in a while the good guy wins...
Student computer users and staff of the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) say the organization has engineered a dramatic turnaround from one year ago, when then-Acting Director Richard Steen described HASCS in a confidential memo as a "ship taking on water faster than it can bail...
...which could be great news for shareholders. What Chrysler and its employees stand to gain is another question. Since 1990 the company has made a tremendous turnaround, streamlining its design and manufacturing process to become the most profitable U.S. automaker. It also shed nonessential businesses like Gulfstream corporate aircraft, acquired in the 1980s under Iacocca. For 1994, Chrysler reported a record profit of $3.7 billion on revenues of $52 billion. Dodge Ram pickup trucks, Cirrus sedans and the Jeep Grand Cherokee were established hits, and promising new products like the Neon had come on market. Toyota engineers even went...