Word: turnarounds
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...There are indications of a turnaround. Although revenues from horse racing dropped 9% last season, the club's total sales rose 13.5%, to $11.3 billion?the first increase since 2000. Yet even as the club struggles to overcome illegal bookies, powerful new competitors are springing up. In nearby Macau, a welter of Las Vegas-style casinos are scheduled to open in the next few years, giving Hong Kongers more ways to imperil their paychecks. The number of tourists visiting Macau jumped 53% in the first half of the year. It's enough to make a punter long for the good...
...state-run children's homes. Revelations by a whistleblower in September 2002 outraged the nation when it emerged that reports of abuse spanning decades were ignored by authorities. Fair Play ZIMBABWE The England cricket team arrived in Harare for a 10-day tour after authorities - in a surprise turnaround - lifted a ban on 13 British journalists. The England cricketers had delayed traveling to the country because of the ban. No Bargaining AFGHANISTAN Officials denied the government had made a deal to secure the release of three U.N. workers freed after nearly four weeks in captivity. A Taliban splinter group that...
...turnaround hasn’t yet appeared in the win-loss column for Columbia, but second-year coach Shoop has brought a new mentality to the perennial doormat. Four of the Lions’ losses in 2004 have come on the last drive of the game, and last week against Yale Columbia came six yards short of tying the game at the end of regulation...
With the Boston Red Sox’s triumphant comeback fresh in their minds, Kerry supporters could hold on to the slim hope of a turnaround. But as the night continued to bode poorly for Kerry, with a loss in Florida and poor returns in Ohio, Democrats began to quietly concede defeat...
...last Iraqi interviews took place on Sept. 20, and the completed study went to the Lancet on Oct. 1 and on to peer review - a fast turnaround for scientific work. Roberts concedes that he wanted the study released before the U.S. election and had hoped to prompt candidate commitments to protect civilian lives: "That is what we'd most like, and that was our goal in getting this out." In Iraq, meanwhile, it was business at usual: at least seven people died in a Baghdad car-bomb blast on Saturday, and the hostage ranks continued to swell...