Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...licentiousness, the anxiety, humiliation and the trial itself, what she calls "the price I had to pay." And the novel generates enough suspense to tug even those readers who know they are being hoodwinked into its wake. But a shuffling of cliches does not qualify as a literary breakthrough. The author seems skillful enough to have tried something truly daring -- a story, say, about a woman who breaks up with a boring painter and finds ethereal sex with a corporation lawyer. But such is not the stuff of which best sellers are now manufactured...
...treatment that included a bone-marrow transplant from his identical twin. Whether the patient has been permanently cured remains in doubt, and two other victims who received the same therapy have not improved. Fauci himself pointedly refrained from characterizing the procedure as a success, saying, "This is not a breakthrough, (just) a small but important building block of knowledge...
...years camera manufacturers have pursued an elusive grail: an all- electronic camera that would, like modern video equipment, replace the chemical film of still photography with new forms of image making. In 1981 Japan's Sony Corp. announced a breakthrough with the Mavica, which looked like a conventional 35-mm camera but stored pictures on miniaturized computer floppy disks. Technical snafus, however, kept the product from coming to market...
...these criticisms come with the understanding that, as befits a great institution like Harvard, there are dozens of brilliant, exciting professors who provide students with top-notch educations. I will remember with gratitude those few epiphanic moments of intellectual breakthrough; times when teachers have actually challenged me to think deeper about the subject at hand. A section leader in English who critiqued each of my arguments and wrote a full page of comments at essay's end reminded me of high school, when our ideas were taken seriously and not reduced to a mere checklist of buzzwords and cliches...
Every few months doctors from medical research centers seem to announce another major breakthrough in the search to cure AIDS. Standing before a group of anxious reporters, the doctors explain in layman's terms the genetic and protein makeup of the AIDS virus which has the popular reputation as one of the deadliest diseases known...