Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard was ready for more. Moments later, a Julie Starr bullet from the blueline with Sara Fischer in front and another Palmer backhand continued the Crimson pressure, but a tripping penalty at 6:58 seemed to give the Eagles just the opportunity they were looking for to turn the momentum around...
...which includes lobbying Congressmen and haggling with Cabinet officers, with a special sense of urgency. If the Administration cannot quickly build support for its unorthodox economic ideas, then Ronald Reagan may fail his central domestic test. Stockman, with his knack for hyperbole, has warned of "incalculable erosion of G.O.P. momentum, unity and public confidence," if the Reagan program is not well on its way to enactment by midyear. There is personal urgency as well. Circumstances and Stockman's own aggressive zeal have made him the most visible and influential of the President's economic policymakers. Though Stockman...
Penn captain Ken Hall took care of the apparent shift in momentum, though, by taking the inbound pass and driving the length of the floor to sink a down-the-middle lay-up at buzzer. "That hurt," Mannix said wistfully after the game. "If he hadn't hit that and we had hit the first half of the second half we would have been down...
Most of the game consisted of the two squads' trading shots after quick rushes down the floor. The eventual shift in momentum may be traced to Crimson domination on the boards, which totally denied the Big Green any second shots. The Crimson led in rebounding in the first half by an overpowering 11-4, a trend which was continued and strengthened in the second half...
...counterattack by Labor's moderate loyalists is unlikely to halt the momentum toward a new political alignment. Labor's right wing has been increasingly unhappy for some time, and, led by the popular Williams, the dissident Social Democrats could eventually attract a wide range of voters. That would seriously disrupt the country's two-party system. Said Brian Walden, a respected TV commentator and former Labor M.P.: "Nothing will ever be the same again in British politics." -By Jay D. Palmer, Reported by Bonnie Angela/London