Word: breakthrough
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Exhilaration is perhaps too strong. The superpower leaders had merely got through a summit that produced no breakthroughs but no backsliding either. Given the angry animosity that for so long divided the U.S. and U.S.S.R., however, that is no small achievement. As Reagan put it in his Guildhall speech, "To those of us who remember the postwar era, all of this is cause for shaking the head in wonder. Imagine, the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union walking together in Red Square, talking about a growing personal friendship." Even when summits end without...
Beyond the general sense of unfulfillment, there was something quite specific that did not happen. A number of the President's advisers had come openly hoping for a breakthrough in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks that would enable them to announce a fifth summit in the fall. Hence there was palpable disappointment when it looked as though summitry and major arms control might be over for the duration of the Administration...
...fact, what has already been achieved is nothing less than a major breakthrough -- an important and promising feat in its own right, and all the more extraordinary against the history of the relationship. As recently as 1984, the arms-control process had collapsed. Washington and Moscow were barely speaking. Now the main provisions of an unprecedented treaty that would significantly reduce the largest, most powerful and most dangerous weapons on earth -- intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) -- have been committed to paper...
Chiron's discovery, if verified, could be both a medical breakthrough and an economic boon, because it could lead to a simple laboratory test for the presence of the virus. The company thinks such a test, which would have a ready market at blood banks and hospitals, could generate sales of up to $90 million a year in the U.S. alone. Chiron is looking for a vaccine but warns that the search could take several years...
...country, reaching more than 20% in eight metropolitan departments. The burly ex-paratrooper grabbed 28.3% of the vote in Marseilles, France's second largest city, topping all other major candidates. A total of some 4.4 million citizens supported the ultra-rightist. As the dimensions of Le Pen's breakthrough became apparent, the National Front leader declared on television, "We have the certainty of a political earthquake and a radical transformation of the national landscape. Nothing ever will be done in France without the voters of the National Front...