Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the wind at their backs in the second half, the Quakers were able to turn the momentum in their favor, attacking with eight men and pressing the action deep into Harvard territory...
China's momentum has come in part from limited experiments with capitalist-style incentives. Instead of delivering all profits to the government, many businesses are now allowed to pay taxes on their income and keep what is left over. But the country has had trouble melding its teeming urban populations into the industrial workplace. Though official unemployment is only 2.5% to 3%, hordes of people are given make-work jobs. Some enterprises could lay off 30% of their workers, Chen said, without suffering any reduction in output...
...tournament began poorly for the Crimson as it lost straight-set matches to Brown, Cornell, Princeton and Yale in succession, before finally defeating Columbia yesterday, 15-13 and 15-3, With this new-found momentum the spikers than trounce Dartmouth for the second time in just over a work, 15-13, 15-9, before losing the finale to UPoon...
...what might have become a runaway stayed in doubt, as Harvard lost its momentum and permitted Tufts to penetrate for the first time all game...
...social movement than strong opposition is vehement action by fringe supporters. Both the moderate left and right are often stymied in their efforts to reach the center by the drastic actions of extremists. Consequently, it seems that passage of the Nuclear Free Cambridge referendum could significantly stall the momentum locally, statewide, and maybe even nationally for arms control and the nuclear freeze...