Word: turnarounds
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...Fred Pierce, the aggressive former vice president of TV planning and development who had become president of ABC Television in 1974, engineered a stunning turnaround. His first major move was to hire Silverman away from CBS to head ABC's programming department. Under the guidance of Silverman, "the man with the golden gut," ABC began turning out a rapid parade of hits. Many of them were raucous, youth-oriented comedies (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley); others exploited buxom blonds and sexual humor ( (Three's Company, Charlie's Angels); still others were sentimental puffballs from Producer Aaron Spelling (Love Boat, Fantasy Island...
Sertich is responsible for a remarkable turnaround in Bulldog hockey which has seen UMD vault from obscurity to two straight WCHN titles and an appearance in the NCAA finals last year...
...arrival of the cranes is symbolic of a 180 degrees turnaround in China's attitudes toward birds and indeed much of its wildlife. In 1959 Mao Tse-tung, then Chairman of the Communist Party, declared a "people's war" against the despised "four pests": rats, flies, mosquitoes and, especially, sparrows, which he said consumed too much of the nation's farm crops. Entire villages took to the road, yelling lustily, banging on pots, pans and gongs, and lighting firecrackers; the sparrows were frightened from their roosts and not allowed to realight. Recalls Chinese Ornithologist Tao Yaokuang, who was forced...
...high-court turnaround came in an obscure case from San Antonio, where the local transit authority challenged the U.S. Labor Department's right to apply federal wage and hour rules to overtime payments of its bus drivers and other employees. A U.S. district judge concluded that public transit was one of the core local functions protected under the 1976 Supreme Court ruling, and that the wages and hours of transit workers were therefore immune to federal regulation. In overturning that finding, Justice Blackmun wrote for the court majority that various federal tribunals had failed utterly to agree on which local...
Harvard did cut the lead to 48-44, and had a shot to trim it to two. But Bob Ferry's turnaround jumper with 25 seconds to go hit hard off the backboard. The ensuing fight for the rebound then set off the fight...