Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...momentum swung back and forth over the first four matches, as the Crimson and the Elis alternated wins...
First-line center Allen Bourbeau took the opposite view. "If we had won, it would be a lot easier in the playoffs because we'd have more momentum," he said...
...stench of scandal was strong again on Wall Street, and it was rising higher in executive suites than ever before. For the first time prominent officers at some of the most prestigious investment banks were snared and handcuffed in the insider-trading investigation that has been gathering momentum since Arbitrager Ivan Boesky was nabbed last November and began cooperating with authorities. Wigton, Freeman and Tabor have not been shown to have had any direct dealings with Boesky, but they were trapped, almost by chance, in the widening network of information that the investigators were gathering. Their arrests seemed to confirm...
...visitors responded by taking six of the next seven points, but the Crimson, with Ian Dyer serving, stopped the visitors' momentum and won the following two points...
...this way, the album gains momentum. From "Took A Hammering" to "Evil Last Night," this disc progresses like a slow spiral into psychosis. However, like the best of Big Black and Naked Raygun, Ice is also triumphant and redemptive in the sheer force with which its pessimistic sentiments are lamented. If ever there were a good argument for the benefits of primal scream therapy, this trio of Chicago bands...