Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue-of-the-week parade marches on. Abortion, drunken driving, homosexuality, drug abuse, child pornography, rape, cancer: one by one, TV movies take up a topic, adorn it with stars and promote it as another prime-time breakthrough. As drama, these TV crusades have such familiar faults-too simplistic, too preachy, too ponderously "educational"-that a good one can easily get lost in the shuffle. In the case of The Burning Bed, that would be a shame...
...years in office. Out of that session, at the very least, will come a fresh reading on the high-stakes state of relations between the superpowers, which have sunk to their lowest point in two decades. The meeting could also show some signs of diplomatic movement, perhaps even a breakthrough agreement of some sort. Finally, it could set the tone for U.S.-Soviet diplomacy in a second Reagan Administration...
...American nations met last June in Cartagena, Colombia, they called on bankers to lower interest rates and relax repayment terms on the region's $350 billion in foreign borrowing. Last week a committee of 13 large lenders agreed to grant such key concessions to Mexico. In a major breakthrough in the relations between bankers and their Latin borrowers, the creditors' group decided to allow Mexico to retire nearly half of its $95 billion in debt over 14 years instead of the originally scheduled six. The committee, led by Citibank Senior Vice President William Rhodes, also consented to reduced...
...scientists were searching for a combination to hold hair firmly without the stiffness of sprays. They discovered a foam (mousse in French) that could deliver two substances-one for body, one for manageability-which textbooks described as incompatible in a mixture. Some doubters claim the breakthrough is just a lot of air to puff up the cosmetics market. A few users complain that mousse leaves a residue and makes hair pack down. Millions of fans, however, swear by it. Carol Alt, a top Elite model who poses for mousse ads, is a convert. The best part, she says, is that...
...machine IBM showed off last week has important technical advances. "The PC AT represents a leap in technology," says Robert Fertig, president of Enterprise Information Systems, a Connecticut research firm. "This is a real breakthrough." At the computer's heart is a new microprocessor called the 80286, made by Intel and licensed to IBM for manufacture. It handles information two to three times faster than the older design used in the PC and PC XT. The new chip enables the machine to run complicated programs that previously could work only on larger minicomputers. The Intel 80286 also makes...