Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style," says Kamins. "She had an aura." She also had a four-track demo tape she had made with another boyfriend, a musician named Steve Bray. Kamins played it and got great response from the disco crowd for a song called Everybody. Madonna's career began to gather momentum, and Kamins at one point thought she had agreed to let him produce her first album. Madonna instead chose a professional producer, Reggie Lucas. "At the time, I felt stepped on," says Kamins. "But I don't think there's a mean bone in her body. Maybe a mean knuckle...
...heels of a well-publicized pro- life campaign last winter. In January, 70,000 antiabortion demonstrators took part in a March for Life in Washington, as they have done on each anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and were addressed by Reagan. His message: "These days, as never before, the momentum is with us." A graphic film that shows ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding to what the pro-lifers have done," says...
...largest city to adopt the controversial system of "comparable worth," which attempts to calculate the value of different jobs, from secretary to warehouseman, based on factors such as education, responsibilities and work conditions. Claimed Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees: "The momentum in eliminating sex bias from public-sector wage scales is now irreversible...
Beyond personnel problems, Reagan faces the threat of a slowdown in his own political momentum. The eloquence of his Sunday speeches, on which he personally labored for many hours, could make up for the fact that Reagan had run into one of the major storms of his political life. And it came at a particularly bad time. Shortly before leaving for Europe the President had suffered a significant congressional defeat in his campaign to provide aid for the Nicaraguan contras, and his popularity rating dipped noticeably in the last job-performance polls. With his big legislative battles over the budget...
There is a broader point here. Political movements feed on opposition. That is why Harvard's spring calendar is not marked by demonstrations against the Soviet Union and cuts in educational aid. Movements gain momentum when their opponents do not act in good faith. And when the University, for any cause, uses forces against its own students without warning, they only confirm for those students the rightness of their cause...