Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precisely what TIME'S Board of Economists offered last week when it met to assess the business outlook for 1985. In a spirited session that also examined the impact of sweeping tax reform and budget-cut plans, board members unanimously predicted that the economy will retain its forward momentum and avoid a recession in the year ahead. Said Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford: "There is no credible evidence that we are on the edge of a significant cracking of the system...
...Angeles Games were just one link in the chain of successes that Huffy has been forging. Since it lost $2 million two years ago, the Miamisburg, Ohio, company has been on a roll. Last year it earned $8.8 million on sales of $272 million. The firm kept its momentum going by earning $1.21 million in the first quarter of fiscal 1985, up from $1.16 million during the same period a year...
...PCjr, however, is unlikely now simply to roll over the low-cost computer market. Apple remains the powerhouse in both the home and school. This year it will sell about 900,000 of its He and He machines. Some industry watchers also wonder whether IBM's sales momentum will continue after the generous rebates expire in January...
...months after a series of blunders by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, rumors of his departure had been gaining momentum. He committed his most serious faux pas last month when he stated flatly that Libyan forces had withdrawn from northern Chad, only to have an embarrassed President Francois Mitterrand admit several days later that the troops were still there. The rumors were finally borne out last week when Mitterrand tersely announced Cheysson's appointment to the European Commission, the executive body of the European Community...
...theory behind comparable worth is that jobs should pay in proportion to the difficulty of labor involved, not to the status attached to the position. The argument has gathered political momentum because it is linked with the issues of sex and racial discrimination--minorities and women typically occupy jobs which many claim are underpaid in relation to similar jobs commonly held by white males. Yet while advocates of comparable worth defend the theory as a means to greater equality, legislation requiring businesses to adopt a pay scale along such lines would not only have a deleterious effect on businesses throughout...