Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucial stage. It is likely to be determined less by the new discoveries of scientists and engineers than by the accounting decisions of bankers and businessmen who support such ventures. Governor George Ariyoshi believes that Hawaii has already passed the point of no return. "We have the momentum going in our state," he says. "I don't want us to lose it." A new shock from the oil sheiks of the Middle East may also change the terms of alternative energy's economic equation. Says John Shupe of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute: "We have gone through...
...action, some systems, like California's are adopting specific curricular requirements. They're refusing to consider anyone without a set number of years in English, math, and so forth. Others are considering shifting their admissions emphasis to Achievement Tests, rather than SATs, and that, too, is adding to the momentum of attempted curriculum manipulation...
...Administration has a program for follow-up moves to build momentum. Secretary of State Shultz, who did more to shape the new policy than anyone else, will confer with Arab and Israeli leaders on the prospect for autonomy negotiations while they attend the United Nations General Assembly session that convenes in New York City late this month. If his soundings are favorable, Shultz is prepared to tour Middle East capitals this fall to develop more specific ideas for getting these talks started. Once negotiations begin, if they do, the Administration may assign a special presidential envoy to watch over them...
What all that cost her emotionally she never fully explained, because she never directly answered her moral critics. But the cost to her work is obvious. Her career regained some momentum, but never again the mature and more interesting direction in which it once seemed to be heading. Until the day she wrote Rossellini a letter, offering to work for him, she had enjoyed a lucky life. As a Stockholm teenager, she got the first movie job she ever tried for. By the time she turned 24 she had made eleven movies, including Intermezzo, in which she played a young...
Despite the delirium, however, nagging questions remain: What, if anything, do the sound and fury in the stock market signify? Why the incredible, almost insane, trading volume? Is this a suckers' rally or the beginning of a sustained bull market? Why has the momentum been so strong when the prospects for economic recovery are so uncertain...