Word: breakthrough
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...agreement in principle" to eliminate a whole class of nuclear weapons and the White House announced that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would sign a treaty in Washington this fall. Already politicians and even some of the experts who should know better have begun hailing the agreement as an historic breakthrough...
National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci also wants a breakthrough in START, but he is looking for a formula that will make SDI part of a bargain without impinging on R. and D. "Asking this President to accept limits on testing," Carlucci says, "is like asking him to raise taxes tomorrow: he just...
Vice President George Bush has survived the Iran-contra hearings. Senator Bob Dole has yet to make his big breakthrough. Congressman Jack Kemp is still scrambling for daylight on the far right of the field. Among the Democrats, the race remains as wide open as a frontier town on a Saturday night. Senator Joseph Biden was supposed to speak to a new generation, but then so was new- formula Coke. Congressman Richard Gephardt tried to trade on protectionism, only to see that issue sink like the dollar. Governor Michael Dukakis made inroads by warbling about his "Massachusetts miracle," but that...
...line with Determan's principle, many private investors like to put their money into ventures they understand or industries in which they have unusual chances to spot a breakthrough product. Says Hugo Quackenbush, senior vice president of the Charles Schwab discount-brokerage firm: "Airline pilots, for example, may know some kind of gadget that is being made by a company that may escape the attention of the big guys on Wall Street...
Such an accord would represent a historic arms-control breakthrough. For the first time, both sides would be compelled not only to slow the arms race but to junk hundreds of newly deployed missiles. But despite official NATO support for an INF deal, many Western leaders fear that double-zero could turn into double jeopardy for the alliance. According to the proposal's opponents, pulling those missiles out of Europe would put NATO at the mercy of superior Warsaw Pact conventional forces...