Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity tennis team, steadily picking up momentum, registered its third whitewash of the season yesterday at the expense of Brown, 9-0. The Crimson's record since the spring trip...
...reflects the nation that made him-mobile geographically and intellectually, sensitive to the prevailing momentum. To some he is still a man in search of an idea. To others he represents an open-mindedness not hobbled by the intellectual arrogance of those in the previous Administrations who led the U.S. into the Viet Nam war, but is instead flexible enough to seek out the right course and attempt to follow it. The doubt, of course, is whether he can perceive the right. He said last fall he would be a fresh wind in Washington, and he has not been quite...
...most of its momentum, the crusade against cigarettes is indebted to a regulatory windfall: the antismoking ads that are broadcast free on TV and radio under the FCC's "fairness doctrine." The ten-year-old doctrine, designed to ensure airing of opposing views on controversial issues, had never been applied to the advertising of a product until 1967. Then the FCC ruled that broadcasters must devote "significant" time to antismoking messages, meaning one of them for every three cigarette commercials...
Harvard's 7-2 victory over Amherst here on Thursday gave the team some of the momentum it needs to face Penn. The two matches the Crimson lost were to Amherst's number two and three men. Both are sophomores who beat their Harvard freshman opponents last year...
...entry of big corporations into a field long dominated by small operators should add powerful momentum to the nation's ambitious goal of almost doubling housing production (to an average of 2,600,000 units a year for the next decade). Even if enough mortgage money were available, the old-line construction industry would not possess the entrepreneurial or technical base for so rapid an expansion. In any case, craft labor unions, archaic local building codes and the industry's fragmented organization inhibit mass production and inflate construction costs. Big combines might ultimately even do for housing...