Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another recent development is the idea of "multi-cultural curriculum" currently gaining momentum in the schools. School administrators say Cambridge's diverse ethnic population of Hartians. Greeks and Portugese as well as Blacks necessitates an education reflecting the city's make...
...night before the debate, Glenn delivered an unusually warm five-minute TV speech, a last-ditch, do-or-die appeal to New Hampshire voters that cost $10,000. Ten reruns were scheduled. Hart, desperate not to lose momentum, dumped $100,000 into television ads and cranked up his solid organization. Mondale just sat tight. His aides fretted. "New Hampshire's not our kind of state," said one, alluding to its Yankee conservatism-and orneriness. "There's a big what-the-hell vote. A candidate like Hart could single-shot...
Suddenly the withdrawal of U.S. Marines from Lebanon began to gather momentum, and by the end of last weekend it was just about over. Wave after wave of Sea Knight and Sea Stallion helicopters ferried equipment and supplies from a coastal landing pad near Beirut International Airport to the waiting ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet outlined, gray on gray, on the horizon. Nudged by a forklift truck, a long-barreled 155-mm howitzer trundled slowly down a jetty and disappeared, like Jonah into the whale, inside a landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other...
...Mondale financial machine is probably in the strongest shape. Timothy Finchem, finance director for Mondale, says the campaign has stayed out of debt (unlike Glenn's) and has yet to lose its early momentum. Finchem explains, "An important aim of the campaign is to secure the Democratic nomination early in the primaries so that we can concentrate on developing a base of financial support for the final election...
...Tigers lost three one-point games in the day's very first matches, turning the momentum in Harvard's favor and making a big difference in the rest of the match...