Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wave of Crimson momentum generated by a 3-1 victory Friday night in New Haven came to a crashing halt here Saturday night, as the icewomen fell victim to a more experienced and fancier-skating Brown squad...
Whether the reforms stand a chance of becoming law, however, remains highly problematical. Brown, who supports the recommendations, is uncertain that voters are yet sufficiently riled by the current system to demand a new one. "It's an insiders' issue," he says. "There's no momentum building at the moment." Indeed, California voters have indicated considerable resistance to public financing; Republican Governor George Deukmejian has vetoed such measures. The commission evidently had some doubt that its report would lead to immediate change. It projected $50 million in campaign spending for state legislative races in next fall's election...
...came out of the locker room yelling to open the second period. But the momentum quickly shifted to Harvard...
With a 3-1 lead, the Crimson were cruising again. But with less than a minute to go in the period, Cornell forward Regina Purtell put the brakes on the icewomen's momentum by stealing the puck from a horde of Harvard defenders and pumping it past White...
...energy and scholarly leadership. The task of the director of such a Center is inevitably made more difficult by deep divisions in the region from which it cannot be isolated. His preference for stepping down as director is motivated by a desire to see the Center recover its momentum as a scholarly enterprise and by a desire to avoid unnecessary and prolonged controversy that would interfere with his own teaching and research and that of others. I respect those intentions while recognizing that he will be difficult to replace as director...