Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-day meeting of the group's foreign ministers had broken up without reaching an agreement. The stumbling blocks: last-minute objections by France concerning Spanish fishing rights in European waters and Spanish wine sales in French markets. Efforts to end the deadlock continued through the week. The breakthrough came in a final 16-hour bargaining session led by Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti. The agreement called for a transition period of seven to ten years, allowing the economically backward Iberian countries to adapt to the Community's policies promoting the free movement of workers, capital and manufactured goods...
India is privileged as the Orient to pose "the great question of the Different." For Schwab, India, and not Eqypt, was the first and essential Oriental influence to inspire the mental displacement. Schwab calls "totally erroneous" the popular assumption that the deciphering of hieroglyphics represented the critical breakthrough, attributing the traditional "prejudice" surrounding Champollion's famous discovery to glamorizing myth. Instead, he explores at length the Occidental fascination with "the Hindu soul... something like a separate sex." Schwab's retrospective vision is itself a richly dense landscape with illuminating details such as Shelley's "pantheism" and Leibnitz's "Oriental lobe...
...carrier is moving ahead with plans to reinstate service on key domestic routes. And even though the two sides are talking again, the strike is not like- ly to end quickly. Said a spokesman for the increasingly embittered union: "We do not expect a breakthrough anytime soon...
While the tests represent a significant breakthrough, they have been criticized for inaccuracy. They do not reveal the presence of the actual AIDS virus but rather the antibodies to the virus. Since an AIDS victim in the very early or very late stages of the disease may not produce antibodies, the tests could allow 5% to 10% of contaminated blood samples to slip through undetected. Moreover, some homosexual men produce AIDS antibodies but may not contract the disease. Gay leaders fear that the supposedly confidential test results will be sought by employers and insurance companies to determine...
...theory, the conceptual breakthrough has been restricted to the economy; in practice, it has begun to affect other areas of national life. Not just Marx but Lenin and Stalin too, China's dialecticians are now saying, could not possibly have foreseen today's global and national realities. Their theories, it is argued, should thus no longer be treated as sacred truth...