Word: momentum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With 31 seconds remaining, Lin's three point seemingly sealed the game for the Crimson. The fans were going wild, Cornell looked despondent, and the team had all the momentum in the world. What happened? Cornell came out with will and determination, drove the ball straight down the Crimson's throats and Harvard simply couldn't respond. No adjustments by Amaker in the last 30 seconds, combined with extremely porous defense by the Crimson allowed Cornell to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat...
...Cornell calls a timeout. Harvard came out like bats out of hell to start the second. Let's see if they can continue the momentum. Cornell has had no answers on defense in the second...
...Barack Obama builds momentum in post-Super Tuesday states, it is important to remember that the sporting event most analogous to what we are witnessing is not a horse race. Think rather of a fifteen- round boxing match. The fact that one fighter may be more bloodied at the end may not matter if he (or she) is still standing and has the same or more points over fifteen rounds...
...majority of the votes in both Texas and Ohio on March 4, her chances of winning the nomination outright are negligible. However, a week ago (with Hillary leading slightly in the delegate count), the commentators told us it was a draw. Now, with Obama having seized the momentum (and leading slightly in the delegate count) the commentators would have it that it is incumbent on Hillary not simply to sustain the stalemate, but to win decisively in all three of Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as if under any other circumstances Obama is entitled to be the nominee. Couldn?...
...holds a lead of 231 Democratic superdelegates to Obama’s 145, a vestige of the days before primary campaigning began in earnest, when she was the presumptive choice of the party establishment and the seemingly unbeatable frontrunner. Months later, Obama has won more contests and built more momentum than his rival; and if he continues to do so superdelegates should vote to best reflect the sentiments of the people. In addition to this reliance on superdelegates, so much else is wrong with the current presidential nomination process: the tremendous cost that ties candidates’ fates to wealthy...