Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culminate at today's Commencement exercises, where class marshals will distribute 10,000 letters asking alumni to withhold contributions from the College, because the Faculty Council refused this spring to adopt a policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual preference. Protests of discrimination against gays steadily gained momentum during the year, from charges that University administrators were unfairly restricting GSA's rights to publicize its activities on posters and in student registration packets to the demands by gay students that the 1981 yearbook staff publicly apologize for describing Adams House as a "haven for homosexuality...
Although Bok insists that he began to ponder the deeper implications of what has come to be known as "the Ptashne case" immediately after he got wind of it, he does say that the idea of going through with the deal "reached me with some momentum" and that "everyone was quite enthusiastic about it." Otto T. Solbrig, professor of Biology and a member of the Faculty Council, a group that considers issues of interest to the Faculty, is somewhat more blunt in his assessment: "They had not thought the issues through--they saw dollar signs and got excited...
...Administration has somewhat slowed the momentum of its budget victory by pushing a hastily conceived plan to bolster the troubled Social Security system by trimming benefits-especially for those who retire at age 62. The Senate last week issued Reagan a stinging rebuke by passing, on a 96-to-0 vote, a "sense of Congress" resolution opposing any "precipitous and unfair" reductions in benefits for early retirees and any package of cuts that is more severe than necessary to keep the system solvent in the short run. Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging...
...momentum from victory in the House on the budget resolution has enhanced his clout on Ihe Hill for the lime being. The debate within Reagan's inner circle is how far he should push that advantage. Secret task forces have been assembled by David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to examine more of the so-called sacred cows of federal spending. The mission: lo find additional billions to cut, permanent devices to restrain the federal hand...
...Early last year he told a group of bankers that the U.S. was "lurching toward a national economic emergency." That same day the Dow Jones index dropped 18 points. One day last week bond prices rallied, in part on the rumor that Kaufman was turning optimistic, only to lose momentum when the story proved to be false. Kaufman believes in personal as well as financial discipline: he has no hobbies and rises regularly at 5:55 a.m. to reach his office by 7:30. But he still has hints of flair, including a taste for mod double-breasted suits, gourmet...