Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudi Arabia, at jobs ranging from installing computers to searching for new oil deposits. Saudi purchases from the U.S. are running so high that-according to Saudi estimates-the jobs of 600,000 American factory workers are directly dependent on those sales. As the Saudi development plan picks up momentum, the number could grow to 2 million...
...Momentum has grown to change this situation. The Committee on Women's Studies--a Radcliffe student group set up by the Radcliffe Union of Students--has worked during the past semester to establish an organized concentration in the field. The group has managed to attract substantial undergraduate support, some faculty interest, and at least cursory administrative attention...
Dave Singleton maintained the momentum, tapping a bunt single for his second hit of the day. But the sophomore was thrown out trying to steal, and the rally was crushed...
Fine's presence is more overt in Elizabeth Lurie's "A Garden Romance," a sequence of theatrical actions built with a dance momentum. Fine is the groom to Ann DiFruscia's bride, and the imaginative scaffolding of theri romance turns on an old-fashioned stand-up bathtub. It sounds gimmicky, but is not; on the contrary, it is the sort of fantasy dance best sustains...
...move toward resumption of U.S.-Cuban relations continues to gather momentum. Last week, for the first time since Washington severed ties with Fidel Castro's regime in 1961, a U.S. diplomat arrived in Havana. Terence Todman, Inter-Assistant American Affairs, Secretary of spent four State days for there concluding fishing-and maritime-rights agreements. Expected soon: the opening of a "U.S. interests" office in Havana...