Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aquamen's momentum was short lived as Yale came back in the following two events to give Harvard its closest call at home this season. In the 1000 free, Eli senior Mark Loftis battled Courtney Roberts for 40 pool lengths, editing out a 1/100 of a second win a lesser margin than that of the victor in both sprint events...
...result of this earlier clustering, candidates can no longer concentrate on one or two early states in hopes of gaining the momentum to win in the larger primaries. By the end of this year, a serious candidate will have been forced to campaign, organize, and raise money for television time in states across the country...
Caught up in the momentum of a fresh Washington scandal, Capitol Hill was thick with shadowy suspicions, cover-up charges and three-ring theatrics last week. There was little new, substantive information to feed the six, count 'em six, congressional committees investigating allegations that the Environmental Protection Agency had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups of toxic-waste dumps for political reasons. But there was enough sound and fury to prove that the affair Capitol wags have dubbed Waste Watergate (Wastegate, for short) was, as one worried presidential aide put it, "out of control...
...array of right, simple pastel designs, match the mood of the musical perfectly. Director Alvin Epstein and choreographer Kathryn Posin have thankfully kept the production loose and lively. If the opening number is a little ragged, and if the second act tends to sag a bit from loss of momentum, at least The Boys From Syracuse avoids that joyless Teutonic precision that seems to infect a lot of large scale Broadway productions these days...
...hardcore group like the F.U.s. On the one hand, hardcore in Boston was derivative in the first place, having gotten much of its impetus from the Los Angeles hardcore movement. Hardcore in Boston seems at times to have stalled out musically, to be riding on a two-year-old momentum which was created by shock value rather than artistry...