Word: turnarounds
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...night. A Louis Dale runner gives the Big Red it's largest margin of the night at 45-20. As time expires, Pusar gets blocked going for a layup attempt, much to the crowd's delight. At the half, it's Cornell 45, Harvard 20. Barring an incredible turnaround, it's looking like Harvard will finish the 2007-2008 season without a single road...
...point in your life or career did you decide to tackle these issues?AT: Personally, it only could have happened because up until recently I was overly concerned with how the work that I produced would reflect on me as a person...Working on this book I had a turnaround where I decided I wanted to not feel compelled to do fiction that would make the hypothetical reader think, “Oh, the guy who wrote this must be so sensitive or cool.” It may have even swung too far in the opposite direction where...
...world's largest railroad under a single administration. It was also notorious for being slow, inefficient and requiring constant government bailouts. But over the past six years, India's most important form of transport - "the lifeline of the nation" as it is often called - has undergone a remarkable turnaround. In its fiscal year ending March 2007, Indian Railways made more than $5 billion. Services are improving and rail bosses have announced plans to spend billions on new rolling stock, faster lines and new stations. Though it still gets government funding, IR is now India's second most profitable state-owned...
...resurrection of India's railroads was a three-step process that has been so successful it is studied by visiting business students from places such as Harvard, Wharton and INSEAD. The first step: speed things up - not the trains themselves but the turnaround time between the end and beginning of each new trip. In 2001 the average time to unload, repair, refuel and reload a freight train in India was 7.1 days. Now it is just five days, which means that 800 trains leave on a new journey each day, rather than just 550. Given that an additional trip...
...Harvard women’s basketball team had a great year in 2007. The Crimson rebounded from a poor start to the season to win the Ivy League in what seemed an impossible turnaround...