Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alarmed at the President's previous success in slowing the impeachment inquiry by withholding evidence, House Speaker Carl Albert summoned Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino and urged him to push on despite that obstacle. Rodino replied that the com mittee was gaining momentum and should meet a target date of July 15 for taking its vote. That would be a month earlier than predicted two weeks ago. The House would then have time to decide the issue by Labor Day. If impeachment is voted - current estimates show a pro-impeachment margin of at least 70 members in the House...
...away from the Quad, Harvard leased two buses on an experimental basis to transport students, free of charge, between the yard, the Business School and Radcliffe, from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. every day. After a slow autumn, when the buses were usually empty, the program began to gain momentum. By February what seemed like fleets of old rattling buses were careening all over the campus, with service expanded and students packed in shoulder to shoulder...
...their activities, their problems and the general tenor of life at Harvard in the mid-fifties. Certainly his roommates--Crawford Williams and Henry Bercovic--are not just foils off which the juvenile diarist Prescott reflects himself. Rather, they have something of an existence to themselves, and they develop some momentum of their own. They might even have been the bases for almost viable characters in a first novel written 15 years ago. As it is, they are just three-dimensional oddities...
...result of such actions, Israel is less enthusiastic about Kissinger's latest visit than are his Arab hosts. At the same time, Egyptian officials admitted last week that Arab extremists had attempted an abortive coup. It was one more danger sign that time and a continued momentum in negotiations are major factors in any Middle East equation, and it helped explain Kissinger's frenetic shuttle diplomacy. As the Secretary of State says, if the momentum for peace is lost the prospects of war gain...
...Giscard maintains his momentum and outruns Chaban, the Gaullist Party will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal setback. "Then we will bury General de Gaulle for a second time," says Gaullist Minister of the Interior Jacques Chirac. In the runoff, as the sole candidate of the center and right, Giscard would be favored to top Mitterrand. The current campaign, however, has had several surprises. Thus, no one rules out the long-odds possibility that Mitterrand may just get a majority on May 5, winning the presidency and making the Giscard-Chaban duel on the right an empty exercise...