Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department's Burt had dismissed the walk-in-the-woods proposal more than once as a "harebrained scheme." He believed deployment of both cruise and Pershing II missiles must begin before the Soviets would negotiate seriously. He also wanted to see a breakthrough in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which were being held simultaneously in Geneva with the purpose of reducing intercontinental U.S. and Soviet arsenals, before there was a deal on intermediate-range weapons...
Innovation, however, has seldom been IBM's strongest selling point. The company has traditionally stressed service and reliability. The PC, for example, was not a technological breakthrough and is assembled largely from parts made by outside suppliers. Its microprocessing heart is manufactured by California-based Intel, while the monitor's display tube is produced by Japan's Matsushita. Microsoft of Bellevue, Wash., provides the operating system, or master program. The PC has been successful largely because the IBM name symbolizes confidence and security in a field known for instability and uncertainty...
...issue a statement last week (he has not appeared in public for more than a month), he used the most caustic language hurled at the U.S. by any Soviet leader since the waning cold war days of the 1960s. Andropov in effect not only said nyet to any imminent breakthrough in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Europe but raised questions about future negotiations with Reagan on almost any subject...
...great breakthrough is expected in the China talks. The way may be cleared for U.S. nuclear reactor producers to sell their products to China for power production. New consulates may be opened by each nation, one in Chicago, the other in Chengdu, which is some 950 miles southwest of Peking. Though hardly expected to pass up the opportunity to remind Reagan of "the Taiwan problem," the Chinese will be pleased to greet him: his visit will be yet another twist in the continuing diplomatic but psychological warfare that Peking is waging against Moscow. Declared one White House official last week...
...when they beat into the wind, thereby drawing more power from its sails. Remarkably, all this seems perfectly within the rules. Even more remarkable, the new design has been working in Rhode Island Sound, where fickle winds and the backwash from the spectator fleet have broken many another seeming breakthrough...