Word: u-turn
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...study, and then to stay. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...
That incarnation will have to wait. Less than 24 hours before the House of Representatives was set to act on the treaty, Gingrich blocked a vote until after the November elections. He juggled several excuses for his U-turn in public, but his chief explanation in private was that Ross Perot made him do it. Gingrich lamented to Democratic leaders that the Texas industrialist was bombarding him with telephone calls last Tuesday. Apparently that was enough for Gingrich to cave in. "I know," Gingrich told the leaders afterward, "that there's some distrust on your side about me." That...
...During the month of July, Nero was involved in three driving accidents in three consecutive days while driving PBHA vans. Although Nero asserts that the first two accidents were not her fault, her argument is weakened by the fact that the third accident occurred when she made an illegal U-turn and hit an off-duty police officer. In light of all this, PBHA staff hardly had any choice but to revoke Nero's driving privileges...
...midnight on Sept. 11, he stole a single-engine plane from an airport north of Baltimore headed south to Washington, flew over the National Zoological Park and down to the Mall, probably using the Washington Monument as a beacon. As he neared the famed obelisk, he banked a tight U-turn over the Ellipse, came in low over the White House South Lawn, clipped a hedge, skidded across the green lawn that girds the South Portico and crashed into a wall two stories below the presidential bedroom. Corder was killed on impact...
Nero took the van on an unauthorized U-turn on July 7. She completed it, but then hit an off-duty police officer who issued a citation on the spot...