Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope to continue the momentum from Rupp's leadership. He had started a new master's program, and the number of degree candidates has increased 50 percent. It's good for the spirit of students and faculty here," Carman said...
...starts, but it's a lot better to win 14 than to lose 14. It suggests that nothing has come off our fastball lately. To fall back in the new season, we'd have to have another of our historic collapses. And I just don't see it." If momentum means as much to a network's success as it does to a baseball team's, then NBC is wellfixed for the prime-time pennant race. This summer viewers got steamed up over Miami Vice, which found a regular perch among the top ten shows. Moviegoers made a bimedia star...
...about 60 manufacturers (of plastics, handkerchiefs, chemicals, printed materials) and provided about 2,700 jobs. Damages: approximately $400 million. At least 88 families were left homeless. In one destroyed warehouse were the elaborate costumes for 75 productions of the New York City Opera. Lost also was some of the momentum that Passaic had made in a heroic effort to come back from the bankruptcy it experienced two years...
Though the movement has yet to score any concrete victories, last spring saw at least an increase in interest among students, as organizers were able to maintain their momentum throughout the spring...
...impose quotas, raise tariffs and otherwise stifle free trade. There are now more than 200 bills on Capitol Hill that seek aid for products ranging from petrochemicals to waterbed liners. As the trade deficit grows to an estimated $150 billion this year, the drive to block imports is gaining momentum...