Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settle [after the summit] for a limited breakthrough in East-West relations," Andrew Palmer, a member of the British government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office told the Lamont audience...
Although exasperation with household chores was not the motivation for their invention, the three participants in a Harvard science program have created a breakthrough mechanism which enables the vacuum cleaner to operate...
Wellesley College's 280 kitchen, custodial and construction employees will go on strike Friday morning unless there is a dramatic breakthrough in today's scheduled contract negotiations, union officials said yesterday...
...Klitzing's breakthrough, which bears directly on the design of semiconductors, was based on a discovery in 1879 by Edwin Herbert Hall, an American physicist. Hall had observed that electricity traveling through a metallic strip is diverted to one side when a magnetic field is applied perpendicularly to the flow of the current. A measurement of that diverted current is known as Hall voltage. Von Klitzing expected to find that Hall voltage in semiconductors is affected by the material from which they are composed. To his astonishment, Von Klitzing discovered that a measure of the voltage did not depend...
...Third World's floundering debtor countries. His speech was the main event for 9,000 moneymen who gathered in the South Korean capital of Seoul for the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The bankers and Finance Ministers welcomed his message as a breakthrough. For the first time the U.S. is willing to throw its weight behind an effort to solve the dangerous debt problem. Said Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, a managing director of the First Boston investment firm: "It is a fundamental step forward for the U.S. to say that the problem is bigger than...