Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a year of expansion, the U.S. economy has regained a surprising amount of momentum, but the progress has been spotty and fundamental difficulties remain. Says Philip Caldwell, chairman of Ford Motor: "The federal budget deficit and the trade deficit are basic problems threatening the country's long-run health and the standard of living for all Americans." Unless the President and Congress deal with those problems, they cannot be sure that the economic recovery will develop from its lusty infancy to a ripe...
...Crimson runaway never materialized Bruce Cullen assisted Norton for a two on Blair breakaway goal at 18-30 and the Harvard edge was cut to two. Penalties to Martin and Wheeler early in the final period gave the Big Green the momentum and Dartmouth pulled to within a goal on a power play tally at 4:17 Cullen set things up with a pass out from behind the net, and Lamoureux slaped the pass in from five feet outside the Harvard goal. At Hanover, N.H. Harvard 2 2 1--5 Dartmouth...
...divestiture movement is not directed against the South African Government is therefore able to categorize Harvard students as extremists and is able to solidify public opinion within South Africa around its policies. While fears are played upon resulting in further polarization of the different race groups and the momentum for progressive change within the country receives yet another set-back...
...Girl movie debut, and the single-minded passion that she brought to the project encourages skepticism. Like Streisand and the character she plays, Yentl is indeed aggressive, exotic, oversize, polarizing. No one is likely to react indifferently to this one-woman band. But as the long, lush picture gains momentum and confidence, it admits the viewer to a beguiling world where emotions can bubble out of low comedy, where familial friendship and carnal love intersect, where the dead exert their tenacious influence on the living, and a folk tale can transform itself into a bittersweet fairy tale. With Yentl, Streisand...
...avenue for this success is three journalist friends who travel down to Nicaragua as the Sandinista drive to oust Somoza in 1979 is gaining momentum. There is, to be sure, a certain degree of caricature on the surface. The portrayal of the reporters--Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy and Gene Hackman--does little to break the stereotype of the foreign correspondent, as we get a vicarious glimpse into the (improbable) world of tough-talking, globe-trotting journalists...