Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial reaction to Gorbachev's proposal was highly favorable. "This is a real breakthrough," said a spokesman for Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German Foreign Minister. The Kohl government, once opposed to the total removal of missiles, was now solidly behind a deal. NATO Secretary-General Lord Carrington called the offer a "substantial step forward." Secretary Shultz felt there was "some prospect, perhaps pretty good, we can get something worked...
...reap his breakthrough for financial gain? No, he thought, much greater prospects lay ahead. Finally he could rid the world of Beach Blanket Bingo...
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Chance for a Breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet Relations...
Glashow said Taubes correctly depicts Rubbia ata "peculiar period" in which the physicist'shoped-for scientific breakthrough of finding apreviously undetected particle turned out to be afluke...
Taubes, who was an applied physics concentratorat Harvard, said he originally planned to writethe book on the events which would lead up to thediscovery of the sixth particle. But "about twomonths into it, there appeared to be somethingwrong," he said. "The breakthrough wasn't what itwas meant...