Word: breakthrough
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...AWACS radar is a breakthrough as well, according to experts. All ground-based radar suffers a serious blind spot: if enemy planes fly low enough, they escape detection. Any craft flying within the Sentry's electronic swath, however, is spotted within moments of its takeoff, and AWACS will not (as does most other airborne radar) confuse trees and houses with aircraft. From each Sentry the positions of scores of planes and ships-enemy and ally alike-can be tracked automatically, and this information can be interpreted by a crew of 14 specialists. The Saudis' Sentries would be even...
...Grouse, one of the editors of the journal of the AMA has said that this policy has had "a chilling effect on the reporting of medical news in this country." Such a policy is said to make researchers reluctant to speak with reporters which slows the delivery of scientific breakthrough to the public. could you defend your policy...
...Germans had special reason to celebrate. They are the prime builders of Europe's main contribution to the shuttle program: the Spacelab, a self-contained scientific compartment for up to four experimenters scheduled to be car ried aloft in 1983. Said one official: "Success for America means a breakthrough for us too and signals the entry of Western Europe into aerospace." The French, who are building a conventional rocket launcher called Ariane, which could draw away some of the shuttle's business, were no less effusive. Said Le Figaro: "After their political and military failures of recent years...
...tensions began to rise. On the eve of the signing, 100 farmers took over a municipal building in nearby Inowroclaw, not unlike the 100 or so other protesters who had already been occupying the Bydgoszcz headquarters of the government-controlled United Peasants' Party for a month. The breakthrough finally came when peasant leaders agreed to refrain from staging new protests and to recognize the leading role of the Communist Party in their forthcoming charter. Nonetheless, the accord had all the makings of a severe new headache for Warsaw: Poland's Communist leaders were faced with another de facto...
...breakthrough came at a seven-hour meeting between Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski and Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa on the eve of the threatened strike. There was little optimism when those talks got under way at noon in Warsaw's 17th century Koniecpolski Palace. Three previous meetings had failed to defuse the crisis that erupted last month when police in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz brutally evicted 26 union members from a provincial assembly hall. Indeed, a massive warning strike to protest the beatings had halted the country for four hours on March 27. With Solidarity brandishing a list...