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...President-elect Barack Obama now promises to do in America. But ditch-digging on a national scale, Beijing knows, will not take China where it needs to go. Only if leaders execute a series of complex alterations to the foundations of its economic growth will China maintain its momentum. "The [global slump] is absolutely accelerating the fundamental changes that were already taking place," says Daniel Rosen, a principal at the Rhodium Group, a New York City - based economic-consulting firm. "The Chinese may have understandably felt entitled to relax a bit after 30 years of wrenching change. Unfortunately, they...
Though the two teams traded leads through the game, the Crimson only led for about a total of 10 minutes. Each time Harvard scored to take the lead, the Fighting Sioux responded with goals of its own to swing the momentum of the game back its way. Case in point: although the Crimson scored eight seconds into the third period, North Dakota struck just five minutes later to come back to win the match by scoring twice within 90 seconds...
...delicately tossed the melody around, all the while building up to a climax in which it seemed the funeral march itself was passing us by. To create this adequately was not easy, but Levine seemed to construct such vivid imagery with ease. Brought to life by a continuing rhythmic momentum, the melody finally died away as the funeral march continued off into the distance. The symphony returned to a lively dance with the onset of the Presto. This time, images of an elegant ball came to mind. Skirling strings and a majestic trio in between the scherzo were followed...
...think that at that point the game was 8-1, at that point we were just trying to get momentum for the next night,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “The game went too far…at that point in the game the guys were trying to just let North Dakota know that we were going to be coming tomorrow...
...eight points in the first half, the Crimson found itself on the wrong end of a 9-0 run to end the frame, giving the Friars a lead which they would not relinquish for the remainder of the game.“There’s always natural momentum changes in a game,” Rollins said. “We need to respond better to that and get on our own momentum shifts. We sat back on our heels a little bit instead of getting pissed off and getting back and putting the ball in the basket...