Word: momentum
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Such tax credits have added to a growing momentum of corporate concern. A Conference Board survey of 176 large corporations found that fully 70% participated in some kind of summer-employment project last year. "Summer jobs are not charity," asserts George Weissman, chairman of Philip Morris Inc. and head of the Summer Jobs '83 program in New York City, where there are about 250,000 jobless teen-agers (40% of whom are blacks or Hispanics). "Unemployment is bad for business-more jobs mean greater consumer purchasing power." The New York program has already placed 11,000 low-income youngsters...
Whatever the reason, IBM's momentum slowed markedly in the 1970s, a period Cary called "a time of planning and consolidation." The company entered the decade with a 60% share of the computer market and emerged with a still impressive but slimmed-down...
...preacher's urging, people start to stand one by one. The momentum builds and soon about 400 of the audience of 1,500 are on their feet. "I speak to the spirit of infirmity. I command the arthritis to come out of your neck, in the name of Jesus!" Then the preacher demands that people begin moving their ailing limbs and joints: "I know it sounds crazy, but just...
...rises on Jerome Robbins' new ballet, Variations on I'm Old Fashioned, the audience sees a movie screen. A four-minute film clip from You Were Never Lovelier (1942) shows Fred Astaire dancing with the breathtakingly lovely Rita Hayworth, then 24. They start off slowly, pick up momentum, then get rambunctious, in an elegant way. Passing through the French doors at the end of the sequence, they even bump shoulders briefly before gliding off into one of the many mansions reserved for the gods of dance...
...inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start, others add, the student movement has sustained its momentum. "Seven years after Soweto, despite the fact that almost two whole sets of students have graduated, the student movement has continued to be active," says ACOA Student Coordinator Joshua Nessen...