Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government has begun to gain momentum. Much of that momentum comes from its adroit moves to capture a rising nationalistic mood, largely directed against what Canadians see as growing U.S. domination. Trudeau has no intention of driving out existing capital, and he considers much of the mood mere "chauvinism." Even so, he moved swiftly last month to block the sale of Denison Mines Ltd., Canada's biggest uranium producer, to a U.S.-controlled firm, and to limit foreigners to one-third ownership of uranium companies. That formula may become standard in many fields...
UMass then had the momentum, but goals by Cabie Warren and John Ince raised Harvard's lead to five as the third period ended...
...Pattullo plan faces apparently insurmountable opposition from sociologists intent on attaining total autonomy. "It comes pretty late in the game, at a time when we've built up considerable momentum," Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, said yesterday...
Harvard missed a valuable chance to tie the score and gain some momentum when, with the visitors a man down, Bruce Regan fired a shot off the left pipe after some nice Crimson pass work. It was one of the few times during the afternoon that Harvard showed an attack as threatening as Cornell...
...Feeling is the mass and momentum of human living. Experience, understanding and judgment without feeling are paper-thin...