Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Saturday night, an undefeated, number one-ranked Harvard team took on an off-year Cornell team that had already lost two games by nine goals apiece. Favored Harvard had home ice advantage, momentum, and revenge incentive against a team it has beaten only once in seven seasons. Harvard lost...
...G.N.P. in 1973 would expand by about $110 billion. In the months since, the Board's prediction has been echoed by other analysts until it has become the standard forecast. When TIME's economists assembled a few days ago, they said that the economy's fresh momentum led them to even higher predictions. Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at Washington's Brookings Institution, asserted somewhat hyperbolically that the night before the meeting he had been revising his predictions upward "every hour on the hour...
...power play reached Kissinger in Washington at 2 a.m. He called Nixon immediately. The next morning, the two met to discuss the U.S. response, and agreed that Kissinger would go on TV to give the Administration's version. The important thing, they agreed, was to maintain the momentum of peace. Kissinger was thus to address himself primarily to Saigon and Hanoi. With that in mind, he hardly considered the elation his words would cause in the U.S., and was surprised by it, he later admitted. Nixon specifically approved Kissinger's language in the assertion that "we believe that...
...appeared in the early going that the Crimson would run away with the game but poor defense and worse foul shooting allowed B.U. to pick up the momentum and take a three-point lead at half-time...
...time Fitzsimmons and Wolfe returned, the momentum had shifted and UMass had cut the lead to 32-29. With A1 Skinner doing most of the damage, the Minutemen opened up a 44.40 halftime lead. Skinner scored 11 points during the stanza...