Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislation is likely to gain momentum from the announcement just over a week ago that Congress will have to start worrying about providing for the upkeep of a spacious Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, which has finally found a home in San Clemente, Calif. An 80,000-sq.-ft. building, including a museum, is planned on a 13-acre, $6.5 million site in the city where Nixon had his Western White House. It will join the libraries and museums of seven other Presidents, built with private funds but staffed and maintained by the Government at a cost of $14.9 million...
...then Dartmouth blew the game open with six unanswered goals before halftime. "They were getting good shots from the crease," said one of the harried Crimson defensemen, Brian Edmonds. "It's tough to stop it," he said of the growing Big Green momentum, "even with a timeout"--which Coach Bob Scalise called, to no avail...
Perhaps one thing in Harvard's favor, however, is that UMass has not played a game in almost two weeks, while the Crimson has played four in the same period. The favored Minutemen, who had a first-round bye in this tourney, may have lost some of their momentum during the layoff...
...came too little too late. That's one of the reasons we're still in this mess. We needed more economic aid early on, and we needed the military aid the President asked for last year at the time he asked for it. We lost momentum. When Congress turns down presidential requests for aid, it encourages the guerrillas to keep fighting. It also discourages the Salvadoran army. The guerrillas think Washington is where they're going to win the war. They know damn well they're not going to win it here...
With the military and political momentum seemingly on their side, the Soviets have little reason to negotiate seriously at Geneva, according to most of the panel participants. Kaiser predicted that they would "let us go through the agony of decision because it provides opportunities they have not had in the past." In this situation, said Joseph Biden, a Democratic Senator from Delaware, there is a vital need to maintain the credibility of the alliance so that the Soviets will realize they must talk seriously. Said Biden: "If the Russians saw God and God said, 'They're really going...