Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea of redesigning the older program gained momentum after a speech three years ago by President Derek C. Bok. In his address, Bok said that Harvard needed to assume a more active role in public education, says Martha P. Leape, director of the Office of Career Services...
...Momentum is a big part of the game," Dooley said, "and when you score early it starts going your way. We missed a few opportunities that would have made it a different kind of game...
When Lorne Michaels left the show after five seasons, along with what was left of the original cast and writing staff, the show lost not only its keenness but its momentum. An interregnum presided over by a talent coordinator who was referred to as the "Ayatullah Doumanian" may have been television's most public and widely publicized embarrassment since My Mother the Car. From 1981 to 1985, Producer Dick Ebersol got the show back on a firmer, though slicker, course from which Eddie Murphy busted loose, as did his pal Joe Piscopo. Then Ebersol left, and Michaels, with...
...divestment movement has been relatively quiet. At times there have been so few people in the movement that it cannot concentrate on both agitation and education. Two years ago marked a particular low in the movement, and much of last year was spent attempting to regain some of the momentum the movement had lost, SASC members say. This year, SASC numbers 30 core members...
Sarah Duncan (five blocks, four rebounds) scored all four of her points in a 12-4 Harvard spurt just before the half, but an 18-ft. bomb by Cornell's Mary Browne (21 points) at the buzzer swung the momentum back the other way as both sides headed into the locker-room...