Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proliferation of lawyers who take on drunken-driving cases is the predictable result of a national crusade to break the connection between alcohol and death on the highways. That movement has been gathering momentum since 1980, when the first branch of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) was formed in California. MADD and its many allies have just had their best year. In 1983, 40 states toughened their drunken-driving statutes. At least nine passed laws mandating jail terms for second offenders; 39 states now have such laws. Eight states, most recently Wisconsin, passed laws raising their drinking ages...
...momentum was building even before Reagan and his NSC gave their collective go-ahead for the five-year plan, which must still be formally proposed to Congress. Early last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested that the year-old Air Force Space Command be subsumed under a new, unified U.S. Space Command for all four service branches. Last week, even as the NSC met at the White House, the Space Shuttle flight crew was 150 miles overhead carrying out exotic experiments, and just a day earlier the Air Force announced that its Airborne Laser Laboratory had used a beam...
...confound the country's U.S.-trained army of 25,500. Since September, when they began their latest offensive, the insurgents have attacked 128 towns and come to dominate six of the nation's 14 provinces. Though the country is in no imminent danger of falling, the momentum is with the guerrillas. Says a dismayed State Department official: "They've done good things, and the army...
Harvard scored twice within two minutes in the second period to claim a two-goal advantage and grab a decisive grip on the contest. But the offense stopped there, and half-way through the third period Northeastern crept to within one. The momentum switched suddenly...
...hoopsters warmed up quickly, though, when Boutilier got the home team going with a swish on a 20-footer 10 minutes into the game. Captain Val Jordan and Anna Collins added to Crimson momentum with a number of brilliant collaborations under the boards...