Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Taber: "The Reagan Administration will clearly rise or fall along with its economic program, now under panicky and premature fire before it is fairly begun. Reagan could be leading the country toward a breakthrough in its economic history, but only if he can convince the public and the Congress to stick with...
...peer pressure, that there is nothing particularly seductive or pleasurable about the drugs themselves. Through decades, doctors, social workers and legislators have learned that the drug problem is complex and deeply rooted. Even Judge Broderick sounded as much wistful as hopeful when he urged Evans to seek "a breakthrough where others have failed." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Martha Smilgis/Los Angeles
...would make us wait all these years for these dirty tablets to find out what the Bible means." To an extent that is what happened with the Ugarit find, and then the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now Ebla is vying to be come the 20th century's third great breakthrough in biblical archaeology.-By Richard N. Ostling
...economically viable for the developers and aesthetically acceptable to neighbors. "Parcel 1b started out with a very adversarial relationship between residents and developers," Anninger said, "but the design review process improved dramatically and was then used as a model for University Place. "If anything, Parcel 1b was the breakthrough for residents, because it gave Harvard and other developers an example showing that a project will come out better with a design review collaboration than any one party could have done...
American firms experimenting with similar cameras tried last week to downplay Sony's breakthrough. "I can't understand all the fuss," said William Webster, vice president of RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., which has developed a videotape camera that operates on the same principle. "Why would anyone want a still camera that takes pictures only as sharp as those on your TV? It's an idea we've discussed for years and clearly decided that there's no market for the product." Said Eastman Kodak Vice President John Robertson: "We expect traditional still photography...