Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weinberger, Perle and other Pentagon subordinates. Arrayed against them are the arms-control moderates: Shultz, his underlings and the White House staff. Even at the White House meetings last week to shape the U.S.-Soviet joint statement, admits a Pentagon official, the hawks practiced "constant skirmishing" to slow the momentum...
...Government tends to grow; Government programs take on weight and momentum, as public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only he had a little more money and a little more power.' " Reagan told his Cabinet Secretaries that he was ready to hit "the sawdust trail," spreading the gospel to cut Government spending. "Lame duck?" he chortled. "I'll put a cast on that lame leg, and that will make a heck of a kicking...
Both teams exchanged possessions, but Saybrook/Trumbull was gaining momentum. Luck was with Quincy, however, and time ran out to give the Harvardians the 28-14 victory and boasting rights all over Cambridge and a small community in central Connecticut...
...stars age, they eject matter, which causes them to spin down as angular momentum is carried away, explains Ross D. Cohen of the University of California at San Diego. If stars contract, they may spin up by this effect alone. The spin up of stars is apparently possible during periods when star contraction is much more rapid than matter ejection...
...haunting bayou. But before he is lured into his own dance of death, Albert is saved and Giselle's generosity releases her soul from the fate of becoming a Willi. Shellman is a powerful dancer to the last moment, his leaps and turns gaining strength as the momentum built. In all, Mitchell's "Creole Giselle" is provocative, and its connection to American history and culture gives it strength that could not be gleaned from the mystical 19th century German forest...