Word: momentum
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...sent an unvarnished signal to some of the most influential climate negotiators in the world - including representatives for China and Indonesia, who will be vital in completing a new Kyoto Protocol - that he intends to fight climate change head-on. And his statement may well buoy the flagging global momentum on climate change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy. Big developing nations like China, India...
...first collegiate goal, but the Bears rallied back to tie late in the third period and held the Crimson scoreless in the extra session. In what’s becoming a recurring story, Harvard was once again hit by a number of untimely penalties that disrupted its momentum, particularly in the third period. “We took too many penalties, and that might’ve cost us the win tonight,” Fraser said. “We’re taking penalties at bad times in the game. We came out in the third period...
...kill to end the game as well as the chance of a shutout. Flesher repeated the act to start out the fourth frame, which saw constant back-and-forth action. Working off of attack errors, the Big Red threatened to take the lead several times, but lost its momentum to service errors. Taking advantage of Cornell’s faulty play, Harvard utilized kills from freshman Anne Carroll Ingersoll, McKinley, and Flesher to force a fifth game.Cornell came back to life in the fifth, leaping out to a 9-1 lead. Out of sync at 11-4, the Crimson gained...
...hard,” Coskren said. “He shot it, a low shot, right to my forehand, and I had my stick about a foot off the ice, and it was an easy shot to tip, and it just bounced in.” With the momentum of two unanswered goals behind it, the Crimson offense surged forward, firing shot after shot at the Golden Knights’ goaltender. The added pressure worked, as Smith made it 3-0 with 3:40 left to play in the first period. But the Golden Knights weren’t finished...
...Certainly there is political momentum among the leftist advocates of Basque independence known as the izquierda abertzale. Although Batasuna, the now illegal party affiliated with ETA, won't be running in March 2009 regional elections, its supporters have a new option. Earlier this month, the left-leaning nationalist political party Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) which had previously belonged to a coalition with the ruling Basque Nationalist Party, announced that it would run on its own. Having already received the support of a former secretary of the Batasuna-linked trade union LAB, ETA could well draw votes from radicals that might otherwise...