Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pictures into digital signals. These were beamed by satellite to New York City, where they were reassembled on a video monitor. After review by TIME'S editors, the final selections were retransmitted to the printing sites. To Technical Director John Mitchell, the new system is "a significant breakthrough." It also means that TIME'S readers can see color photographs in their magazines only 36 hours after a news event...
...breakthrough represents a new stage in the ancient battle against malaria and the insect that carries it, the female Anopheles mosquito. Peruvian Indians discovered the first important weapon: the bark of the Cinchona tree. For centuries the bark and its derivative, quinine, were the only means of preventing and treating malaria's waves of fever, which can recur erratically and weaken victims for years. Gin and tonic, originally made with quinine, is said to have been developed by British colonialists as a way of making their daily doses more palatable...
Today the Continent is flooded with IBM computers, Matsushita video recorders and Boeing jetliners. Here and there, innovative Europeans armed with breakthrough discoveries and marketing savvy have elbowed their way into lucrative new fields. But those modest inroads have failed to hide a painful reality: Western Europe has been caught unprepared for the accelerating high-technology revolution beyond its shores...
...York, New York, the slender woman stepped with poise into the hall's glaring lights to accept the historic nomination and one of the emotional convention's most spirited ovations. Once again the faces of delegates, beaming or moist or both, reflected the excitement of the breakthrough...
...have two daughters. Does that give this breakthrough special personal significance for you-and for them...