Even if the push for a broad investigation loses momentum, the Bush programs will not soon be forgotten.
In the first half of the film, when his obsession tags along with the police's official investigation and Avery's more pointed research, he is a useful foil and focus; but in the second half, as the investigation loses momentum, Graysmith's supposed obsession becomes the main motivating factor.
When it was brought to a premature close by the BAE-SFO settlement, the Tanzanian investigations lost all momentum, as well as a rare opportunity to bring to court a suspect in a major corruption case.
This was particularly apparent in countries where the culture was for referrers to order rather than request investigations, losing the opportunity for radiologists' valuable input as to the most appropriate imaging investigation, if any is needed.
According to Reuters, the investigation has lost much of its momentum since Mulvaney took over.
When Novikova spoke about the ongoing police investigation, she lost her accustomed air of poised irony and sounded a plaintive note.
"The investigation has lost all the momentum it had in January 2006" when Mr. Brammertz took over, Mr. Mehlis told me in 2008.
It emerged during the inquiry the "change of employment status" form for the senior Wilson security guard who ordered the spying and was subsequently suspended with pay during the investigation was lost.
Many of his other books and articles which dealt with philosophical and sociological issues either beyond, or treated via perspectives beyond, exact and objective investigation had lost appeal to psychology researchers by the time of his death.
She said Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree, who in 2013 discovered his agency had mistakenly closed the investigation and lost the case file, has not followed through on a promise he made to her at the time.
