Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program of undergraduate exchanges planned to begin next year with schools and universities throughout the Soviet Union. Never before has the U.S.S.R. let loose platoons of Soviet students in the U.S. or allowed unchaperoned Americans to study en masse in the Soviet Union. "It's a tremendous breakthrough," says Patricia Olmsted, associate dean at consortium member Smith College...
Twenty years ago, the Motown Sound was no longer a great breakthrough. It still produced hits, but the misses were coming more often. Florence Ballard left the Supremes. Holland-Dozier-Holland left the label to write on their own. Civil rights activists criticized Motown stars for catering to the bland tastes of the while, pop-music...
...would-be fathers frantically try to diaper a baby, using an electric fan, a roasting pan and a roll of paper towels. It is one of the dumbest scenes in one of the dumbest of the season's new shows, but a sharp-eyed viewer will notice a small breakthrough: the baby. Infants on prime-time TV are sometimes talked about, maybe even glimpsed from afar; yet with rare exceptions (O.K., Little Ricky), they have traditionally been nonpersons in a medium that prefers tots old enough to fire one-liners at the grownups...
...Washington and how the press tried to ignore it, and the Red-baiting going on. I felt that my country had betrayed its black citizens." He got the role nonetheless -- the first black actor to co-star in a network dramatic series. The event was a Jackie Robinson-like breakthrough. "I remember being totally overjoyed about it," recalls Actor Robert Guillaume. "When Cosby hit, it was like a Second Coming." Cosby went on to win three Emmys for his performances; he and Culp have remained friends ever since...
Reynolds' smokeless-cigarette project, code-named Operation Black Hole, was conducted in total secrecy. But word began to leak out before last week's press conference. Amid rumors of a breakthrough, Reynolds stock jumped nearly three points, to 67 3/4, in heavy trading. Once the news was out, Wall Street took a more skeptical view. The new product, analysts agreed, would not boost Reynolds' profits anytime soon, and so its stock price settled back to 64 7/8 at week...