Word: momentum
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...Hoping to capitalize on the momentum at Kaesong, the Roh government is also pushing an ambitious plan to create a second special economic zone (SEZ) in and around the West Sea port city of Haeju. One idea floated was to build a man-made island to house factories in the West Sea. But Lee Myung Bak's transition team has all but ruled out any quick movement on a West Sea project, mainly because the geopolitics of the region are still deeply contentious. The maritime border between the two countries is contested - the North and South Korean navies have skirmished...
Hillary Clinton blunted the momentum of surging Barack Obama, and John McCain pulled out a victory in his old electoral stamping grounds, as record numbers of voters put polls and pundits to shame in New Hampshire. On both sides, it was a political roller coaster of the old school - the wooden kind that shakes and quakes until you really aren't sure how it will end. And then it pulls in to the finish with a shudder, and everyone piles off to get back in line...
...With momentum against her and a battle plan that appears to be staking everything on the big and expensive states like New York and California, which hold their primaries on February 5, Clinton's campaign is putting new pressure on its fund raisers to come up with the cash she will need to carry her through. "Clearly, by every measure, I hear they are in a real financial crunch," says one prominent fund raiser. "Here's the dilemma: You have a situation where there clearly is a full-court press to raise more money, but considering the state of decline...
...nuclear weapons program in 2003, was a "major shock" to Israel. "This disrupted 15 years of Israeli policy based on working with the international coalition to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear weapons program through sanctions and the threat of military action, if necessary. Within two weeks, the momentum of the sanctions regime to contain Iran was suddenly reversed...
...Palestinian issue, Israel hopes Bush can restore the momentum generated by the Annapolis summit in November, which has since flagged. Spokesman Regev says: "We want to make sure that the energy level of the peace process remains in high gear. We want the President to support Palestinian pragmatists who believe in a negotiated solution and to lay out clearly his vision of two states." In his Israeli TV interview, Bush said he wanted an agreement on "what the Palestinian state would look like" by the time he left office. Regev still believes that is an attainable target: "If the Palestinians...