Word: momentum
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...able to save hundreds of dollars a month right there. Refinance the mortgage while rates are still low. Use any new savings to pay down your highest-rate credit cards first. An alternative approach is to target your smallest debts first in order to experience success and build momentum to pay off larger loans. Once you've paid off a debt, apply the full monthly savings to other debts and long-term savings. (See how Americans are spending...
What QM does have, however, is the word, “uncertainty.” Uncertainty is a mathematical relation between certain pairs of measurable qualities, like position and momentum. It says that if you can measure X to within a degree of certitude, then the maximum certitude you can get for Y is a function of the certitude for X. As a consequence of wave-particle duality, you can’t measure both quantities as accurately as you want to. What this means epistemologically and metaphysically is perpetually up for debate...
This year, though, with members of The Naked Chips scattered throughout the country’s college towns, it’s been a challenge for the band to maintain its momentum...
...market hit a low in March, it has fairly consistently marched higher, occasionally falling back, but rarely by more than a few percentage points at a time. The last time the market has had such a run without a correction of 10% or more was 1933, says Bartels. Momentum, pleasant though it may be, tends not to last for such long stretches...
...There are all the makings here for two very good games,” Grimm said. “This week is a great chance to get the second half of the season going, to build confidence and momentum again...