Word: break-through
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...obsolete streetcar commercial buildings are being torn down, most of the housing behind it stays. This is a reasonable and obvious solution, yet it is a break-through in renewal. In many projects in other cities and earlier years the obsolete commercial stayed and the housing came...
...contain, in addition to their principal ingredient of the synthetic, progestin, a minute amount of another synthetic hormone, estrogen. This fulfills some of the roles of the estrogen that a woman normally secretes generously during the first part of her menstrual cycle, and it serves to prevent spotting or break-through bleeding in the middle part of the cycle...
Dean Rusk described the book as a "great break-through" and Nikita Khruschev said it would have "a significant effect on the lives of all peace-loving peoples...
Laboratory synthesis of ATP, adenosine triphosphate, marking a major break-through in the investigation of the origin of life, was announced Sunday by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The experimental results have just been published in the British journal Nature by Carl Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy and a member of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and by Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma and Miss Ruth Mariner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Church pointed out that Senate opposition to a test ban stems from basic strategic considerations, and not from the issue of how many inspection stations are required to prevent cheating. Many Senators believe that further testing--which might produce a decisive technical break-through--would better serve American security than cutting off the nuclear arms race at its present level...