Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...icewomen started this season slowly, stumbling to a 2-7 record. A mid-January, 2-1 overtime defeat of Dartmouth brightened the outlook for the second half of the campaign, but it remained to be seen whether the momentum would carry over through the long, two-week exam break...
Given the impetus of the tax revolt, several well-organized right-wing groups have captured the ideological as well as political momentum away from the liberals (a word now about as popular as "child molester" with politicians). What's good for General Motors has become once again good for everyone. Tax abatements to attract business are a national fad, even though Kuttner says they do not succeed in attracting business, and even if they did, would not generate enough tax revenue to make up for their cost. Furthermore, he attacks the Right's insistence that the government causes all inflation...
...Reagan well knows, the calm could prove deceptive, and his prediction of the response to his plans may not be so very wrong. His program, reversing a trend toward ever larger Government that has been gathering momentum for almost 50 years, represents a high-risk gamble. And while much of the nation seems ready to take the chance that less spending and lower taxes will pay off in slower inflation and more economic growth, Americans are waiting anxiously for the program that he will spell out this week...
...Government spending have so shackled U.S. business that growth will be sluggish well into the future. Moreover, the time left to reverse that course is growing short. Warned Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources, an economic consulting firm based in Lexington, Mass.: "The federal budget has tremendous upward momentum. Increases in spending can't go on at the rate of the past ten years, or the private sector won't be able to function any more." Manhattan Economic Consultant Alan Greenspan, who is also a member of Reagan's new Economic Policy Advisory Board, pointed out that...
...thought we had the momentum after the fourth game," Coach Roger Martin explained, "but we gave up too many easy points...