Word: turnarounds
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...days Dobrynin could sometimes get 24-hour turnaround messages straight from Leonid Brezhnev. He had a private phone line from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a special parking place in the State Department's basement. All that stopped with Reagan's Administration. Dobrynin now goes in the State Department's public entrance. And so cold are U.S.-Soviet relations that it matters less whether Dobrynin has the instant ear of the Politburo...
America's trade troubles mark a startling turnaround. For a century, between 1870 and 1970, the U.S. enjoyed a virtually uninterrupted string of trade surpluses. The 1970s brought deficits, but they could almost totally be blamed on high-priced oil imports from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. U.S. exports continued to expand, and as recently as 1980 the trade gap was an uncomfortable but tolerable $36.4 billion...
...craft, some looking grim and weary, others with grins and wisecracks. To their bitter disappointment, they were told that they might as well head home for the weekend. Admitted Thomas Utsman, director of shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center: "This will not be a one-or two-day turnaround...
...last year's housing market, compared with just 13.5% in 1981. The newcomers helped push the 1983 housing-start rate to 1.7 million homes, compared with an anemic 1.06 million level in 1982, and thus can claim some credit for last year's vigorous homebuilding turnaround...
...reports a turnaround...