Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took juicier stuff than that to convict four city officials in 1982 on a variety of charges involving tax evasion, bribery and extortion in connection with their city positions--convictions which gave momentum to an investigation of the White machine by U.S. Attorney William F. Weld '66 Quite simply, it was the blatant extortion of money from city employees, forcing them to contribute to the Kevin White Committee (the mayor's campaign fund) if they wanted to keep their jobs, which caused the scandal. The mayor can argue publicly that it's in their best interests to support the incumbent...
...budget cuts may swing the boom-bust pendulum a little bit one way or the other, but the fact remains that disinvestment began to gather momentum long before Reagan ever reared his Brylcreemed head. Bluestone and Harrison's book demands that readers of all political stripes face the fact that investment, and how to increase it--not this budget plan or that--is the economic issue for the '80s. Deindustrialization is a problem that has been brewing for a long time, and it will require a fundamental and far-reaching solution...
...sure, took steps to check and curtail this federal capacity in the wake of the excesses surrounding the Viet Nam War, the Watergate scandals and some mischief credited to the CIA and FBI in recent decades. The Government has nonetheless already accumulated a good deal of momentum toward a yet greater capacity for keeping the public in the dark: in an executive order last spring, the Reagan Administration made the hiding of records easier for civil and military bureaus while, at the same time, undermining the 1966 Freedom of Information Act that was designed to give citizens better access...
Harvard's Ken Code seemed to slow the B.C. momentum with a goal from the left point, but right wing Bob Sweeney's deflection of a defenseman's shot made it 4-1 with just 9.03 gone...
...trade unions and thus far has not come a cropper. At the same time, she has staunchly resisted industry's pleas to soften her austere monetarism. She has also been lucky. The Labor Party opposition is a shambles, split by left-right fratricide, and the Social Democratic Party's momentum has faded as fractious Britain united behind its resolute leader in the Falklands...