Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staunch friend of the West. For all their own foot-dragging in the past, the Saudis have demonstrated true statesmanship-and implicitly recognized Israel's right to exist-in the way they helped mediate the current cease-fire in Lebanon. They are desperate for a U.S.-sponsored breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict, largely to help them justify their own close ties with the U.S. Yet those ties are being strained anew by the determination of Israel and its lobby in Washington to block the sale to Saudi Arabia of airborne warning planes (AWACS) and other hardware that...
...Israel. He argues that the cease-fire between Israel and the P.L.O. in Lebanon last month constituted tacit mutual recognition. "I was stunned," he says, "when I learned that [P.L.O. Chairman] Yasser Arafat had said the P.L.O. would respect the ceasefire. We must base our next step on this breakthrough...
...editor of Joan Didion, Wilfrid Sheed and Stanley Elkin, he responded ecstatically to the new work. Wrote Robbins in a report to his bosses: "A major novel about a wonderfully eccentric mother and son, very funny and very moving at the same time. Sure to be the 'breakthrough' book by an immensely talented novelist in his mid-30s." His faith in Irving was backed by a $20,000 advance-plus $150,000 on a next book, sight unseen...
...finds himself enmeshed in one of those late night drunken conversations with the woman there, who, though it's not important, we're led to believe is his wife or lover. What matters is the uneasy alliance. The conversation is half bullshit and half frustration. Maybe it's a breakthrough and maybe it's the Beam. It goes on just a little too long and it doesn't get anywhere. It's 2 a.m. life, and you realize that you've been here before and when you were, the last thing on your mind was that it seemed like...
...nomination, which must be approved by the Senate in September, was a stunning break with tradition. In its 191-year history, 101 judges have served on the nation's highest court, and all have been men. By giving the brethren their first sister, Reagan provided not only a breakthrough on the bench but a powerful push forward in the shamefully long and needlessly tortuous march of women toward full equality in American society...