Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge defense outlays coupled with tax cuts and social service reductions is a prescription for budget deficits and inequity. Stockman has thus punched a gaping hole in his credibility and that of the other major White House economic spokesmen and effectively destroyed the administration's hard-won political momentum. In other words, the Democrats have been handed a political gift beyond their wildest hopes and dreams...
...judgment, dictates the shaping of economic policy. Stockman painted a lurid picture of unprincipled compromise, pork-barrel greed, and cowardice in the face of interest group pressure. As he neatly summed it up. Washington is a place where it doesn't make too much sense to "believe in the momentum theory...I believe in institutional inertia. Two months of response can't beat fifteen years of political infrastructure. I'm talking about K Street and all of the interest groups in this town, the community of interest groups. We sort of stunned it, but it just went underground...
...said at the post-game press conference. For once the score, 28-0, is a pretty good indicator of how bad it got. Sure, Harvard moved the ball on the Elis, but when things got tight a Yale defender was there to make the big play and turn the momentum around...
Harvard regained the momentum with a 60-yard run from its own 20, which set up a wind-aided but nevertheless spectacular 37-yard field goal...
Despite its inability to score, Quincy dominated the game throughout the first half. It had little trouble producing yardage, while Dunster-Mather had difficulty in mobilizing its offense. But after the first 30 minutes of play, the momentum changed...