Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...describes family meals that ended in a cascade of broken dishes and foul-mouthed rages that left her cowering in the closet. As she got older she ran away in other ways: school problems; an early, unwanted pregnancy and marriage; and a bad-check charge (later dismissed). After her breakthrough film roles in American Graffiti and Magnum Force, her therapist observed that she was ill prepared for good fortune. Somers' sister and two brothers all followed their father in alcoholism. But the real point of this grim but touching account is that parents and siblings, the drinkers and those...
...Syrian initiative could mark a breakthrough in attempts to end the seven-year Iran-Iraq war, which has threatened to engulf other nations in the strategic, oil-rich region...
...Michael Dukakis who has the most to lose from Hart and potentially the most to gain. Until now the Massachusetts Governor's hegemony in the neighboring state of New Hampshire was taken for granted. But Hart won a breakthrough victory in that state's 1984 primary, and it is here that he intends to make his do-or-die stand in 1988. "If there's one loser, it's Dukakis," theorizes Political Consultant Ralph Mongeluzo. "When Hart dropped out, a big part of his support went to Dukakis. Now he'll have a shot at getting it back." Early polls...
...Reykjavik last year, SDI remained the main stumbling block to a major breakthrough. The Soviets have long claimed that all but the most basic Star Wars research is precluded by the 1972 ABM treaty. The Reagan Administration, under its much disputed "broad" interpretation of that treaty, insists that more advanced research and certain types of tests in space are permitted. In addition, the Soviets seek a guarantee that neither side will withdraw from the ABM treaty to deploy a space-based antimissile system for at least ten years. Dealing with that impasse was the job of the working group that...
...pursued his visions of disarmament through strength, many Republican strategists -- notably Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger -- warned that the headlong rush to cut missiles was not being guided by any strategic vision of how the U.S. and its allies could best defend their vital interests. Yet another surprise "breakthrough" that discarded the carefully wrought strategies of deterrence could have been disconcerting...