Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departure threw the talks themselves into confusion just when President Carter's Special Envoy Robert Strauss was due in London this week in an effort to provide some momentum. It was unclear what effect Dayan's resignation would have, but U.S. and Arab diplomats both regretted the loss of one of Israel's most flexible and imaginative leaders...
Martin notched the lone Crimson tally with 12:50 remaining, but, clearly the momentum was with the Green. Hibbert scored her first of the day with just over eight minutes remaining, and hit the back of the net again six minutes later...
...truth was that when Miller left the Fed in August to become Carter's Treasury chief after the summary axing of Blumenthal, the Fed's monetary policy was in disarray. So strong has been the resulting expansionary momentum that even as investors and financial markets were reeling last week from Volcker's abrupt shift in Fed tactics, the central bank itself glumly announced that money growth for the previous week had been a too robust $2 billion. That was anywhere from two to four times what had been expected...
...Gandhi had no illusions about what Nixon was up to. She faced her own conflicting pressures. Though she had contributed no little to the crisis atmosphere, by now it had its own momentum, which, if she did not master it, might overwhelm her. Her dislike of Nixon, expressed in the icy formality of her manner, was perhaps compounded by the uneasy recognition that this man whom her whole upbringing caused her to disdain perceived international relations in a manner uncomfortably close...
...weakening currency fosters a vicious circle. The dollar's decline not only causes more inflation in the U.S. but also gives OPEC an excuse to push petroleum costs still higher, because oil prices are set in dollars. As the latest run on the dollar continued to lose momentum, officials in Bonn and Washington recalled that in the battle of the buck the next round of speculation has always come more quickly and been more ferocious than the last...