Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the consensus has formed, for whatever reason, it is implemented with speed, determination and breadth unmatched by any Western country. So many key people have been involved in the decision-making process and they understand the implications of what has been decided so well, that they achieve tremendous momentum. What could be more effective than a society voracious in its collection of information, impervious to pressure and implacable in execution...
Michael T. Anderson `83 a SASC organizer said yesterday the committee expects 50 to 75 people at the picketing, which he said would help preserve "momentum from the open meeting...
...nightmare and successful community resistance ended in November 1980. Fed up with five years of dilly-dallying. Harvard entered a pivotal state environmental hearing with the staff of the department on MATEP's side and finally got the state go-ahead it had sought for so long. MATEP's momentum picked up, from then on, Harvard has beaten back every attempt by the community to delay the plant they still view as a menace...
...buttress the civilian-military government of Christian Democrat President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Said a senior U.S. military analyst: "We are trying our damnedest to keep this enthusiasm up. That's why we sent those helicopters in so quickly." Warned a high-ranking U.S. specialist on Central America: "The momentum has gone, and we are within inches of losing control over the situation entirely...
...would like to discourage the fans from throwing anything on the ice," Cleary said yesterday. "Throwing things on the ice could cost us the game. First, we can get a penalty. Second, it can stop our momentum. Third, it could cause an injury. I want the fans to be loud and supportive--and they've been great--but I also hope they'll refrain from throwing anything. It's just too important a game...