Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With only 11 minutes of play left in the first half. UMass coach Gelf Gettler, desperate to score and gain momentum for the second half of play pushed three Minutemen up closer to the Harvard goalmouth. But sweeper Frank Ricapito and stopper lan Hardington half off UMass strikers Michael Gibbons and Kayvan Khatami, sending the ball back to the Crimson attact...
...results. To erase memories of the assembly's notorious inefficiency, Colantuono sees the need for a council which first establishes a tradition of profesionalism and gains self-esteem. Substance-less meetings which are deftly run will not indefinitely better the council. But there is now a sense of positive momentum where for years there has been farcical stagnation...
...answer Do they want to win? Yesterday against the Huskies of UConn the spikers temporarily responded yes with a 3-2 win. But throughout the five-set contest, the Crimson seemed reluctant to give a decisive answer At several crucial points, the spiker seemed to falter and lose momentum, letting UConn regain the advantage Consequently, a match that the Crimson looked strong enough to win in four sets dragged out to five...
...Maroons had been able to score again quickly, the shift in momentum might have lifted Springfield to victory. But the goal shocked the Crimson as much as it sparked the Maroons, and Harvard netminder Juliet Lamont didn't allow another the rest of the night...
Despite these sharp differences, however, the voters remain evenly divided, with each side claiming the "momentum" and a narrow edge in the polls Mitchell, appealing to Maine's many poor and to the unemployed in hard-pressed industries like textiles, shoes, and lumber, has been hitting hard at Emery's support for what Mitchell spokesman Steve Morrison calls "Reagan's trickle down approach" Emery says he's a "mainstreamer" on economics, and is pinning his hopes on Maine's relatively few 78 percent overall unemployment rate and on the conservative Republican instincts of the state's many small farmers. Both...