Word: breakthrough
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...senior official in Washington has said no breakthrough on Afghanistan is likely at the summit. But Gennady Gerasimov, chief spokesman of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, indicated the Kremlin wants out of its eight-year old military involvement...
Chatting in her trailer between scenes, Close expresses hunger for more roles like Alex, which she considers a breakthrough: "The first woman I've played who is out of control, who emotionally runs the gamut -- the first real, full-blooded role I've had." She adds that Attraction has also liberated her personal style. "Now I can wear that black leather jacket from the film, or those slinky, low-cut things," she laughs, "and feel really good about myself...
...diving too far, the Administration must achieve two other goals of its complex strategy -- a major budget-deficit reduction and better economic-policy coordination with West Germany and Japan. On those two fronts came small but potentially significant victories last week. Congressional leaders and Administration officials reached an apparent breakthrough in their special deficit-cutting summit, in which they have been struggling for two weeks to compromise on a minimum of $23 billion in reductions. For the first time, Republican leaders came up with a proposal containing tax increases that President Reagan gave hints he might accept. It was, declared...
...commitment to the planned superpower summit in Washington next month and served notice on the Reagan Administration that he will demand tangible results from both that meeting and a projected Moscow ; summit in 1988. Insisting on "more than merely a continuation of discussion," Gorbachev called for a "palpable breakthrough" in strategic- arms reductions and in "barring weapons from outer space" -- a reference to the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. There have been recent indications, however, that the Soviets might soften their die-hard opposition to space-based defenses in favor of gaining some predictability about how and when such...
...blue in the presence of a compound called X-Gal. Declares Benton Box, dean of Clemson's College of Forest and Recreation Resources: "The potential we now have for tracking a genetically altered organism in the soil offers a tremendous opportunity. I think this is going to be a breakthrough." Says Jane Rissler, of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of toxic substances: "Unlike larger organisms, which can be tracked visually, these microorganisms are simply very small. The public has a right to know where they...