Word: turnarounds
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...dropped out of high school and then spent more than a decade battling drug abuse. He was born again six years ago, he says, patting the thick wooden cross around his neck. He has been clean since and has a high-paying job burying fiber-optic cables. But his turnaround came too late to be a model for his three older children, two of whom dropped out of school...
...administered in the spring every year and the scores are returned between the middle of the summer to the beginning of the fall. “We don’t have anything like rushed scores that involve students paying extra money to have a sort of quick turnaround time,” MacKinnon said, contrasting the MCAS with the SAT. However, Cambridge Public School Committee member Nancy Walser said that the downside of the test’s “slow” turnaround time is that it makes it difficult to use the results to make improvements...
...strategists in either party think a Democratic takeover of the Senate is likely, but many agree that the party's playing offense rather than defense is a remarkable turnaround, given that Democrats have more incumbents (18) fighting to keep their seats than Republicans do (15). But the G.O.P. failed to recruit strong challengers for the North Dakota, Nebraska and Florida seats that had been considered their best opportunities. "There was a chance for us to get damn close to [a filibuster-proof] 60 votes," says G.O.P. activist Grover Norquist. "We gave away three sure things...
...buyouts certainly add a new sense of urgency to a turnaround effort that until now some critics, such as GM's newest board member, Jerry York, investor Kirk Kerkorian's man in Detroit, had considered stuck in neutral. But things are not looking up at GM these days. The automaker recently disclosed it had lost $10.6 billion in 2005, not $8.6 billion as the company reported in January. March sales estimates prepared by outside analysts suggest that GM's market share has dipped close to 21% in March, a far cry from the 45% GM commanded in its heyday...
...technical skills. In particular, the team has struggled out of the gate, letting opponents jump out to big leads that proved too much to overcome. So last night, when the team came onto the court shouting, jumping, and exchanging an endless line of high-fives, it spelled a turnaround from the team’s recent woes. “We were trying to get emotional, trying to get into it,” said freshman middle hitter Brady Weissbourd. “We really felt together.” “Against Springfield, we didn?...