Word: breakthrough
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Furthermore, in October 1983, we incorporated build-down into the U.S. approach and offered to explore trade-offs between the areas of U.S. and Soviet advantage. These trade-offs offered the best prospects for a breakthrough. Unfortunately, the Soviets were unwilling even to discuss tradeoffs. The Soviets are highly patient and will attempt to outwait the West, hoping that we will negotiate among ourselves. Talbott fails completely to recognize this tried-and-true Soviet tactic. Edward L. Rowny, Chairman U.S. START Delegation Washington...
...gender. Risks are inherent in emotionally charged politics; expectations can be raised far too quickly and frustrated. For some Blacks, the swing in national focus away from race is a political distraction. Ferraro's nomination, says South Carolina NAACP Co-Chair Adelle Adams, "may be a breakthrough for White women, but not for Black women or Black men." Then too it has been noted that a woman has merely won a shot at the vice presidency, second place, a ceremonial...
Reported in the latest issue of Nature magazine, the unexpected finding marks a major breakthrough in understanding vertebrate development, said Professor of Biochemistry Gary Struhl...
Says the tycoon of tofu: "I am close to this tremendous breakthrough. It is made of tofu and has the taste and smell of a beefburger." Given his marketing skills, it may not be long before Tofutti addicts sit down to the main course: a Big MacFutti...
...time the Administration, under pressure from Congress, began tinkering with its proposal, to make it appear more reasonable, the policymaking process had become too confused and the international atmosphere too poisonous for a breakthrough to be possible. The Soviets deserve much of the blame. Their tightening of the screws in Poland, their brutality against the guerrillas resisting their occupation of Afghanistan, their political pressure tactics against Western Europe-all these developments contributed to the overall deterioration in East-West relations and therefore in the prospects for arms control...