Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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investors, as nothing else has, the fact that the momentum of inflation has been stopped-and that the Administration is committed to keep it that way. All the debate about increased foreign competition, about gold outflow, and the narrowing of profit margins that the steel hassle aroused made it clear to the nation that the green years of automatic growth, plump profits and U.S. dominance of world business were at least temporarily ended...
Karandas, meanwhile, was striding past the Fegg. He seemed to have gathered quite a momentum, and his little legs chugged hurriedly through it, Bloomlike. "I will show up him--him with the jacket like Ali Ahmed's. . . . My trousers are in danger, and as a direct social consequence, so must be I... I am eagle, flying to a quaint perch in Weld Hall... I had better try to step." A red light leomed in front of the Indian. He had arrived at Broadway. He could not stop. Two MTA busses and a University truck were bearing down or Karandas...
...gestures are so economical that the audience often fails to see them; when the orchestra is surging forward on its own momentum, Dixon may suspend conducting entirely for bars on end. Such restrained emotion is reflected in Dixon's musicmaking. It is neither hot-bloodedly Tuscan, in the manner of Toscanini, nor chiseled and cold, as many Europeans believe all music made by Americans must be. Instead, it is full-bodied and vigorous while it remains consistently controlled. In Frankfurt, Dixon's style has earned him a reputation for playing Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms in the Germanic fashion...
There may be "marginal military advantages that will be gained, Hughes continued, but these are "far outweigh by the dangers of increasing the momentum of the arms race and of hectic damage" to future generations...
Ford is still suspending judgment on whether to produce the Cardinal in the U.S. But if the switch to bigger cars gains any more momentum, the company will almost surely cancel its plans to assemble Cardinals in Louisville, Ky., and instead satisfy whatever U.S. demand there may be for the car by importing the two European versions, which are to be produced in Britain and Germany. Probable date of the final decision: some time before early summer when, in order to include a U.S.-made Cardinal in its 1963 line, Ford would have to okay parts production by suppliers...