Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coming into the homestretch, Yang fought to gulp down air, and began his final bid for a gold medal. His lead grew to a foot, two feet, a meter. Inch by inch, Johnson somehow gained it back. Then, with only meters to go, Johnson's legs went dead. Momentum alone carried him to the finish line a bare 1.2 sec. slower than Yang's time of 4:48.5 That was close enough: the race of his career had won Johnson the gold medal by the Olympic record score of 8,392 to Yang's 8,334. Left...
Ready for a Push. In the judgment of market analysts, all these favorable technical factors set the stage for a market advance, but the market still needs a push from improved economic conditions to pick up momentum. With the big institutional investors (mutual funds, insurance companies) now returning to the market and the market's basic psychology improving, many Wall Streeters believe that the market is ready to respond to favorable news, take off on a sustained advance to new highs. Says Gerald S. Colby, partner of Boston's du Pont, Homsey & Co.: "The market is seeing better...
Election Year Caution. What the interplay of indicators-classical or makeshift-can never capture is the mood of the U.S. economy, which motivates most business decisions. Last week that mood was outspokenly cautious. The U.S. economy is temporarily without its most historic feature: momentum. This made the task of the indicator readers difficult and frustrating, but some put it all down to the fact that summer is typically the slack season for business expansion, and that U.S. businessmen are traditionally hesitant about making business decisions in an election year. As a so-so third quarter draws toward a close, most...
These two events would have been plenty for a single week. But in the accumulating momentum of missilery, U.S. missilemen fired successful test shots of Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic mis siles, got off a Polaris intermediate-range missile that traveled 1,100 miles, sent three Bomarc defensive missiles after fastmoving targets, and hit them (one Bomarc intercepted a supersonic Regulus II missile). And, only one week after an X-15 plane set a new speed record for piloted aircraft, the same X-15 climbed to an altitude of more than 131,000 ft., higher than any plane had ever...
From those early years on, Italian painting fluctuated wildly between violence and serenity. Even as the futurist wave gathered momentum, Modigliani began painting his delicately attenuated figures, and Italy's art moved on through Giorgio de Chirico's dream-like surrealism, the almost eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta...