Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush, who has lost ground in the polls since wrapping up the Republican nomination more than a month ago, won the New Jersey and New Mexico primaries unopposed--and had no active competition in the other two states, either. He said the political momentum would swing his way once his campaign brought the issues of peace and prosperity into focus for the voters...
...last 10 years, not only have we lost the momentum of earlier minority progress, we have suffered actual reversals in the drive to achieve full equality for minority citizens," the Commission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life said...
...snap parliamentary election. Polls show that the Socialists stand to win 37% in the new parliamentary vote. Under the current majority voting system, that translates to more than half of the 577 seats in the National Assembly. Accordingly, many old-line Socialists urged Mitterrand to capitalize on his momentum by holding a new vote that could overturn Chirac's 1986 parliamentary majority...
...Dartmouth junior made 12 saves in the second and third periods, shutting out Harvard for a stretch of 28 minutes. During that span, the Big Green was making its own momentum against senior goaltender Mike Bergmann...
...Green kept attacking Bergmann and the Harvard defense again and again in the final minute and a half, as the momentum was in its favor. Bergmann was sparkling in the crease as the Crimson circled the wagons for the final Indian attack...