Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey coastline. In addition, there were reports that President Carter was considering reducing the size of his proposed tax cut, a move that would tend to counter inflation. Buyers also came back because of the Street's herd instinct. As one broker put it, investors saw the gathering momentum and the market's rising prices and said, "Oh God, it's getting away from us"-and rushed in before prices rose further...
Given the momentum behind the Core Curriculum and the heavy personal and political investment involved in the plan for Dean Rosovsky and many Faculty members, the implementation of the Core is almost a foregone conclusion. Students have done little to show their opposition to the Core thus far. Yet with two-thirds of the student body against the plan, the resources for opposition exist. We support the Freshman Proctors' resolution against the Core and hope that concerned undergraduates will register their disapproval in coming days. Admittedly, the chances of stopping the Core have become quite slim, but for the sake...
...Crimson added another tally from Billy Forbush to go into the half with a 5-2 advantage, and it came out red hot for the second half. After Jamie Egasti won the opening face-off, Mike Faught got the all-important, momentum-creating first goal after the half (the first of five for Faught) on a feed from Martin with only a minute gone. When Martin added his third goal of the contest another 70 seconds later, the Crimson was up 7-2 and looking good...
...just as the momentum began to shift. Egasti won another key face-off, and Faught scored his second goal to puncture Penn's balloon...
Weizman believes that Israel cannot survive forever in a war situation with its neighbors. In the past he has expressed dismay at the stalling of the peace momentum, and he and other top Israelis may be beginning to have doubts on that score about the wisdom of the Lebanon invasion. A top Israeli official told TIME last week: "Like generals before him, Weizman has learned that you can know how to start a war, but you never know how it will...