Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...granting the removal permits at next week's meeting; if the rent board members don't act, or if they deny the application for permits, then the chances that the council will actually amend the ordinance to include exempting for the two buildings will improve dramatically. And once that momentum is established, it might carry over into other votes on other housing issues...
...alternative," Kohl boomed as the 830 delegates applauded. A poll published on the eve of the convention showed that the C.D.U. had gained so much momentum that if a vote were held today, it would win a clear majority of 50.3%. That is a remarkable comeback for a party that suffered the worst defeat in its history only a year ago, when Schmidt's coalition trounced the conservative Minister-President of Bavaria, Franz Josef Strauss, 53.5% to 44.5%, in the national elections, winning 271 seats in the Bundestag, against a total of 226 for the C.D.U. and its companion...
...Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray sky. Warmup musicians, two men and a woman of a group called Bluebird, plug in their guitars. Here in Rutland, the Grand Old-Time Fiddlin' Contest is gathering momentum...
...much momentum has been a problem at some of the New England fiddle contests, especially the big celebration held each July at Craftsbury, Vt. This year a crowd of some 25,000 people-an alarming mob for Vermont-swarmed over the town common on the day of the contest, stayed all night and broke up outhouses to burn in campfires. An abundant young woman wearing bib overalls and nothing else, as some accounts have it, got up on the bandstand at Craftsbury and danced. The opinion in Rutland is that she was a hippie. The voters of Craftsbury decided...
After cutting the Crimson's lead to 16-14 with 9:11 to go in the third quarter and apparently pulling the momentum over to their side of the field, the Tribe decided to be hosts first and a football team second. And so the next four times W and W got the ball, quarterback Chris Garrity threw two interceptions and the backs fumbled twice. On three of those semi-drives, the Green and Gold was marching along in Crimson territory, with the goal live and the lead in sight, but they like to treat their visitors right...