Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge officials will have trouble keeping the momentum going. But for now, most everyone is smiling...
...Once we got momentum going, it all went very quickly," Pitkin says...
Like many market masters, Granville has a system. He uses the volume of stock transactions to help predict major swings. "When you throw a ball into the air, it has upward momentum," he explains. "Before the ball drops, the upward momentum drops sharply. The ball is still rising, but the upward momentum is falling. You know that it will reach its top soon. In the same way, when the majority of my indicators signal a new bottom or top, I know to flash the buy or sell signal...
Throughout the summer, momentum has been building for an answer to the mystery. Nowhere was the Mo bigger than in Dallas itself, where the cast and crew shot location footage before the Screen Actors Guild strike shut down the set. (If the strike lasts much longer, the Dallas season premiere may be postponed; Lorimar has filmed pieces of a dozen episodes, but not all of any one.) For six weeks, thousands of Dallas addicts turned the actual Southfork Ranch into a Texas tourist attraction second only to the Alamo. The neighbors threatened to sue, but Southfork Owner Joe Rand Duncan...
...possibility that Ford would join the ticket gained momentum Wednesday morning after Rather reported on CBS radio that Reagan had "indicated to some leading powers in his party that his preference" was the former President. Reports of meetings between Ford and Reagan were aired on the evening news shows. At 7 p.m. Rather went on TV live with the strongest story up to then, saying that Reagan was not going to consider anybody else "until he gets a final, unequivocal, new no from Ford." Rather took pains to note that his sources did not think Ford would accept...