Word: turnarounds
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...farmers and government cooperatives gives individual farmers control of the land and production for 15 to 30 years. Farmers grow what they want and sell at the market price. Largely as a result, Vietnam has become the world's third biggest rice exporter, after Thailand and the U.S. The turnaround is remarkable, given the near famine conditions that existed in the spring of 1988 in parts of central and northern Vietnam. A further indication of improved conditions in the North is the sharp reduction in the numbers of boat people arriving in Hong Kong, down from almost...
...state convention declaring the U.S. a "Christian nation." The Republican speaker of the house and the leader of the senate, who had voted to impeach Mecham, were defeated in primaries. On the highways, EV WAS RIGHT bumper stickers began to outnumber EVAN THE TERRIBLE. It was a remarkable turnaround for a Governor who became a laughingstock for defending the use of the word pickaninny and swearing his office was bugged with lasers...
...second round was highlighted by Kincaid, as well as Dave Friedman's phenomenal turnaround--chopping 14 strokes off of his first round of 96 for a second-round score...
...turnaround has been presided over by TASS Director General Leonid P. Kravchenko, 51, who took up his job 15 months ago, after serving as editor in chief of the trade-union newspaper Trud and as a top official at the state committee for television and radio. Sitting in his walnut-paneled office on the eighth floor of TASS headquarters, located just a few blocks east of the Kremlin, Kravchenko declares that there should no longer be any taboo subjects for TASS reporters. "We are going through our own perestroika here," he says. "I want our journalists to be known...
Salton, who netted four goals last night, credits the turnaround in the team's performance to a vigorous spring break training schedule in Fort Lauderdale that included four hours of water polo a day in an 84 degree outdoor pool. Sipping margaritas in the jacuzzi and partying with other college students was not on the schedule...