Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solucion. as some liberals contend. But our present action in EI Salvador is of a much darker shade of gray than it need be, U.S. guns continue to take too many Salvadoran lives, our military involvement escalates daily and no progress is being made. In short, the momentum still carries everyone in the wrong direction...
...council should now look for other ways to improve undergraduate life in the same decisive manner. As with storage policy a month ago, officials are currently reviewing another important issue without soliciting broad student input the final approval of the Core Curriculum; at its fifth anniversary. With its new momentum, the council should pour all possible effort into a project it has already begun--a focused campaign to ensure that widespread student concerns are heard and the Core appropriately modified...
...principle, the proposed "uncapping" of retirement age appears to deserve all the legislative momentum it has gathered in recent months. After all, as advocate for the elderly Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.) has pointed out time and time again, discrimination on the basis of age is as indefensible as sexism or racism. Qualifications for a job should obviously be based on skill, not some arbitrary chronological distinction...
...back or to convince voters with his eloquent rhetoric. Above all, he spoke to the common man. As the Melbourne Age put it, "He is the best communicator in the country, capable of reducing complex arguments to simple sentences, at times punctuated with the odd expletive." Hawke seized the momentum when the campaign began and never relinquished...
...momentum with the five on three." Harvard coach Bill Cleary said after the game. "The key was the tying goal. It really took a lot out of them...