Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse, inflation has built up unsettling momentum. One reason is a long series of past blunders by the Carter Administration: backing a huge increase in the minimum wage, promoting Social Security tax increases and thus jacking up business costs, forcing an expensive settlement of the coal strike. Another reason is that food prices are jumping, partly because of supply shortages caused by the brutal winter. Propelled largely by food costs, wholesale prices in June rose at an annual rate...
...choices are between good and better, between much and more. The momentum comes from highly educated and skillful bureaucrats who know how to maneuver in their worlds but have a full perception only of their own interests and do not sense the full burden the people must now sustain...
...Browns lost the 1944 series to the Cardinals. They also lost their momentum. Nothing, including the midget and clown introduced after the war by Bill Veeck, could lure the fans. Sold to a Baltimore brewer who brought them to his own city and renamed them the Orioles, the Browns played their last season in St. Louis in 1953. As they had for most of their careers, the team played to almost empty stands. But at least they kept tradition alive. The 1953 St. Louis Browns finished last...
...last March warned that Proposition 13 would replace "one monster with another," had pushed a more modest Proposition 8 instead. It would have rolled back property taxes by about 30% for homeowners and tied state and local spending to rises in personal income. But as 13 picked up unstoppable momentum, Brown performed a pirouette that would have dazzled Diaghilev. By election night, as 13 rolled up its huge majority and 8 lost, 53% to 47%, the Governor was almost sounding as if the Jarvis-Gann proposal had been his own idea...
...There is no fancy writing to divert the eye or the mind. Translator Ralph Manheim captures an English equivalent of Handke's German prose: dry, simple and spare, as if the author were trying to strip language of as much resonance as possible. Even forward momentum is thwarted; the story is chopped into segments, some hardly more than snippets: "On a cold morning the woman sat in a rocking chair on the terrace, but she wasn't rocking. The child stood beside her, watching the clouds of vapor that came out of his mouth. The woman looked into...