Word: breakthrough
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...times the staff has assumed a third role: secret diplomacy, such as Henry Kissinger's 1971 efforts to arrange through Pakistan the diplomatic breakthrough with the Peoples Republic of China...
...biggest uncertainty about Ford is what the encore to the Taurus and Sable breakthrough will be. While those cars were conceived during Ford's risk-taking days, the profitable company could conceivably lose its daring touch. The pressure will increase as Ford's aerodynamic styling becomes more widely copied and thus less distinctive. Before long, Ford will have to come up with a suitably dramatic successor to the Tempo and Topaz, which have already started to look a bit stale in comparison with their sleeker cousins, the Taurus and Sable...
...cause of Alzheimer's and its cure remain unknown. This week, however, an important breakthrough will be announced in Washington that may change this bleak picture. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, scientists from New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine will reveal that they have identified what could be the first fully accurate diagnostic indicator of Alzheimer's in living people. The find could lead to improved therapy and even, in the next several years, to an understanding of what causes the illness...
...chance of a breakthrough dimmed the moment the Soviet team arrived in Vienna. Shevardnadze was not accompanied by the full delegation that had negotiated deep into the night in Iceland. Most conspicuously absent: Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Soviet Chief of Staff and leader of the Reykjavik arms- control team. The first meeting between Shultz and Shevardnadze lasted three hours. From the beginning, the Soviets made it clear that they were not interested in the U.S. goal of defining some areas of agreement, perhaps including the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, or disagreement. Instead, Soviet negotiators hammered away at just...
...have been at odds over the four northern islands off Hokkaido, where the Soviets have 10,000 troops and 40 advanced MiG-23s. Sovereignty over the islands, occupied by the Soviets at the end of the war, remains a highly divisive issue. Last August there was a modest breakthrough when the Kremlin allowed a group of Japanese to visit their relatives' graves on two of the islands without first obtaining visas. But the Japanese are not overly impressed. "So far," says a Japanese Foreign Ministry official, "it's been an atmospheric change...