Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps because the Administration realized that prospects were nil for a diplomatic breakthrough, the White House had originally scheduled just 30 minutes of private policy conversation between Reagan and Mubarak. But that short shrift ran counter to the Administration's aim, which was, as a U.S. official explained, "to establish a personal relationship" between Reagan and Mubarak, and the meetings were lengthened to one hour...
...another enormous development planned on a site next to University Place. A coalition of neighborhood groups managed to block construction with one lawsuit after another; it wasn't until the developer of that land agreed to make major concessions that they backed off. "If anything, Parcel 1B was the breakthrough for residents," Thomas Anninger, president of the Neighborhood 10 Association, says. "It gave Harvard and other developers an example showing that a project will come out better with design review collaboration...
...breakthrough came last month when an off-duty Louisiana state trooper spotted a red Pontiac Trans Am in the town of Lake Charles that matched the description of a car sighted near the scene of a number of the attacks. The owner, John Simonis, 30, was placed under surveillance for five days until authorities were confident that he was the "ski-mask rapist." Once in custody, police said, he confessed involvement in 77 assaults...
...deceptive-basing Multiple Protective Shelter system for the MX missile, a bold act which opens the way to a proper assessment of the entire strategic posture. His improvement in command and control will provide the basis for a "launch under attack" capability. This will insure against some unexpected Soviet breakthrough which would imperil the other two legs of our strategic deterent, i.e., a breakthrough in anti-submarine warfare or a breakthrough that would imperil the survival of our strategic aircraft. His proposal to develop both the MX and the Trident-II missile calls for further analysis, however, since the Trident...
Eighteen months later, his brilliant career was in ruins. Findings that were touted only last summer as a fundamental breakthrough in the understanding of carcinogenesis have been branded fraudulent. Colleagues discovered that his results included protein gels-isolated bits of cellular matter-that were cunningly doctored to look like something they were not. While Spector denied any wrongdoing, he was expelled from the Cornell lab, withdrew his Ph.D. thesis, even though it had already been approved, and quit the university. Important aspects of his work may yet turn out to be true, but few believe he will ever be able...