Word: breakthrough
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Despite the disclosures in Le Monde, however, direct proof of government involvement was missing. A major breakthrough came from Le Canard Enchaine. In its Sept. 11 issue the magazine speculated that another, heretofore unknown, team of French agents might have been sent to New Zealand to blow up the ship. A week later Le Monde Reporters Bernard le Gendre and Edwy Plenel revealed that two frogmen had placed mines on the Rainbow Warrior before escaping. Their orders, the paper said, had to have come from a high level within the government, since none of the military figures involved would credibly...
...Harvard Medical School last week, Bert Vallee, 66, a professor of biochemical sciences, announced a major breakthrough in the study of angiogenesis. Vallee and his associates, together with scientists at the University of Washington, in Seattle, revealed that they had isolated and purified a protein that promotes angiogenesis. More important, they had cloned the protein's gene, a step that could ultimately enable scientists to produce the substance in large and pure quantities. While other angiogenic factors have been identified in the past, their genes have never been cloned...
Banter between the superpowers can mask a deadlock, a breakthrough or something in between. By the time he got to the White House last Friday, Shevardnadze had been through a well-publicized week of public polemics at the United Nations and quiet conversation with Secretary of State George Shultz. But the new messenger from Moscow had given no clues about whether he was carrying the fresh arms-control proposal that other Soviet officials had been hinting at for two months. The silence surprised his hosts. Was the Kremlin continuing its long propaganda prelude to the November summit between Reagan...
Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Robert Schooley, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), said at a news conference that while the findings do not mark a major breakthrough, they may cause doctors to revise the strategy with which they diagnose and treat AIDS...
...edge in the war of words. The rhetoric level will increase this week as both Shevardnadze and Shultz give major speeches to the U.N. General Assembly at the opening of its 40th session. The Soviets continue to build up the summit as a "window of opportunity" for a major breakthrough in arms control that may not arise again "for a very, very long time." The U.S. just as resolutely tries to play down such talk as "wishful thinking." At his press conference, Reagan said the summit should be viewed as "a beginning point for better relations, a starting point...