Word: turnarounds
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...turnaround,” Watkins said. “The game kind of started off on a weaker note, and then I felt like I got stronger as the game went on, instead of letting myself get down...
...think it was good,” said senior first baseman Cecily Gordon. “We learned what we needed to do. It was a major turnaround mentally, realizing our potential and what we need done on the field...
There are several reasons for the turnaround. A big one is the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which offers financial rewards to states that increase the number of kids moved out of foster care and into adoptive homes. Under ASFA, state adoption divisions receive a $6,000 bonus for every child adopted above and beyond the mean number placed the previous three years. Another important funding source has been the Dave Thomas Foundation, created by the late founder of Wendy's, an adoptee himself, to encourage the adoption of foster kids. The foundation has funded three model programs...
...later rounds are endless. One of the sport’s defining plays has to be Christian Laettner’s 17-footer at the buzzer in the 1992 East Regional Final to give Duke a 104-103 overtime victory over Kentucky. The three-quarter court pass and turnaround jumper have doubtless been imitated millions of times in backyards and empty gyms across America over the last decade...
...Ward, a 26-year IBM veteran, will run Lenovo from his headquarters outside New York City, far from Lenovo's home base in Beijing. In September, Acer, Taiwan's best-known computer maker, tapped Italian Gianfranco Lanci to be its president. Lanci earned the post after spearheading a major turnaround of Acer's business in Western Europe, where Acer notebook PCs became the No. 1 best seller last year...