Word: turnarounds
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...Classical Jazz festival, where they played such 1920s-vintage New Orleans numbers as Armstrong's Cornet Chop Suey and Jelly Roll Morton's Jungle Blues. For Marsalis, who had brashly declared in one of his early interviews that "there is no jazz in New Orleans," that was quite a turnaround. He now regrets what he calls his youthful "ignorance" and is delving into that city's musical legacy -- particularly the blues -- with a vengeance...
...This is a really big turnaround for us," junior defender Kristen Fowler said. "We were a lot more fired up today. Being at home with an Ivy League game helped...
...first impression, it looked a very different country indeed: blacks being allowed into hotels, bars, theaters and schools previously denied them by law, no more segregated beaches, toilets, parks or benches. This very week the governing National Party had voted to open its membership to blacks, an organizational turnaround analogous to a P.L.O. recruitment drive among Jews. If not entirely dead, apartheid was clearly in the intensive care unit with the oxygen turned...
Ironically, Barron says that two years ago, in the heady days of the Massachusetts Miracle, the square was beginning to see an economic turnaround, perhaps even a return to its glory days at the turn of the century...
...wood products and a locale for development. He declared that he would work vigorously to stop the burning of the forest by ranchers and settlers, then appointed Brazil's foremost environmental activist, Jose Lutzenberger, to enforce the program. In an interview with TIME, Collor was unapologetic about the abrupt turnaround. "On questions of ecology, we have made a fundamental commitment to life," he said. "We have nothing to hide and nothing to explain...