G.M. will have to make more headway than last year's 0.3 percentage point gain in share for a real turnaround.

"If they can point to a five-year increase in the percentage of union members in the private sector, that would be a real turnaround."

"Being competitive extends their window for a real turnaround."

But even he concedes that the hardships are likely to get worse before a real turnaround begins.

"That's a real turnaround from when they were saying 'Goodbye computers.' "

Whether it represents a real turnaround, we have to wait and see.

Where schools have stumbled at the beginning of Edison's tenure, he said, the company has engineered real turnarounds.

She had a real turnaround the day we heard that you were alive and on your way home.

"It was a real turnaround," the Kurdish official said.

There seems to have been a real turnaround.