Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massive Infusion. South Viet Nam's economic problems gathered momentum in the mid-1960s, when the U.S. military buildup was pouring millions of new dollars into the national till. Inflationary pressures mounted, but the "swinging-door" regimes of those years were far too shaky to combat those pressures by the normal methods of taxation, price controls and enforced savings. Instead, the government was forced to keep prices low by keeping the supply of goods high...
...stage someone has just blown a line. Someone covers quickly and they all just keep going, the momentum spins on. No time to stop until the lights dim and the act is over. Afterwards the performers scatter to the corners of the back room, and sit quietly with their various plaints. Senelick comes in talking to the prop girl. He stops to console it worried P??grim. After a minute he disengages, turns to the group, and adjusts his spectacles...
...Laos situation is not yet out of hand. The danger is that even modest escalation has a momentum that could provoke a bigger war in Laos than either side wants. It is reasonable that the U.S. would want to keep Prince Souvanna Phouma's government propped up while trying to extricate itself from Viet Nam. But it is debatable whether increased air and ground offensives are necessary. Instead of heating up the war in Laos, Washington might well consider cooling it down. An obvious way would be to decrease air activity, but not below the level needed to preserve...
SUDDENLY, in a shift that could prove historic, the nation has faltered in its determination to grapple with the toughest moral and political dilemma of the postwar era: how to ensure justice for its blacks and tranquillity among its races. The momentum created over 16 years by stern courts and forceful federal officials to eliminate segregated Southern school systems has been slowed. The first hesitant steps toward racial balance of Northern schools have been thrown off stride. The nation, at least temporarily, seems to be retreating on the sensitive and highly symbolic issue of school integration...
...Department no longer has the momentum it once had." White said last night. "It has become so large and complex that if it doesn't split now, it will split in several years anyway, in much less favorable circumstances...