Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end mediation efforts and formal talks were still going on, and hope for some breakthrough continued to flicker. But the outlook was grim. Observed Poland Expert Adam Bromke, a political science professor at Ontario's McMaster University: "The whole thing has the makings of a Greek tragedy. All the actors know they are heading for disaster. But they appear to be under a spell they cannot break...
...Atkins' Nutrition Breakthrough, Atkins...
...through a state bureaucracy that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough is an other's speedup: though the government publicizes him as a Stakhanovite, he is resented by other workers. One of them passes him hot bricks during a demonstration, maiming him. When his best friend is accused of the crime, Mateusz fights to free him and is himself placed on show...
Progress, but still no breakthrough in Atlanta
...most of the killings. Some authorities also believe there may be one or more "copy cat" killers. The pattern, many blacks fear, is part of a racial plot or vendetta. Still, there have been no arrests, and au thorities do not consider their new findings to be a breakthrough...