Word: momentum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dhabi, where last month's World Future Energy Summit (WFES) attracted more than 16,000 visitors and companies that ranged from General Motors to modest Chinese solar manufacturers. And with a new Administration in Washington struggling to keep its own ambitious green agenda on track, Abu Dhabi kept the momentum going at WFES by announcing that at least 7% of its electricity would come from renewable sources by 2020, up from nothing today. Nor, said Masdar officials, would the recession have a major impact on the emirate's plans, announced last year, to invest $15 billion in clean energy...
...men’s squad heads into the trying weekend with momentum on its side. After suffering a four game losing streak Harvard was led by junior Jeremy Lin in a stunning last-second victory over the Brown Bears (6-14, 0-6 Ivy) on Saturday. With 22 second-half points and 27 overall, Lin drew a foul on a jump shot just before the buzzer. He then hit the game winning foul shot to give Harvard a 64-63 advantage and renewed life in Ivy league play...
...point on an exemplary season with a 6-3 victory over rival No. 5 Yale (9-4, 3-4 Ivy) Wednesday evening at the Barnaby Courts to close out the regular season.The victory helped assuage a heartbreaking 5-4 defeat to No. 1 Princeton last weekend and restored positive momentum to the team as it prepares to host the Howe Cup Championship this weekend.With No. 1 sophomore June Tiong already out with an injury, Crimson Coach Satinder Bajwa took a risk resting No. 3 freshman Emily Park as a precaution heading into the championship weekend, but his coaching paid...
...While Harvard comes into the weekend with some momentum, the team is still struggling to put together complete games...
...business is still going greener. Of course, the recession has restrained sustainability practices and as Makower writes in his just released State of Green Business report, whatever progress is currently being made may not be "addressing planetary problems at sufficient scale and speed." Regardless, he says, the green momentum is still growing, not so much because businesses such as solar power or recycling have become financial titans (they haven't), but because green values - efficiency, reducing waste, managing carbon - have increasingly become standard practice for any smart business. "It's really becoming business as usual," says Makower. "These are practices...