Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single concession will not suffice. And it's not concessions that we should be talking about, but rather a joint search for formulas that will ensure universal security. I am convinced that this is quite possible. Conditions are now ripe for a breakthrough in the prohibition of chemical weapons, the reduction of conventional arms in Europe and cuts in Soviet and U.S. strategic offensive weapons...
...been invited to talk about his work before the American Physical Society in May and that he intended to do so. According to Brigham Young, the meeting ended with an agreement to submit simultaneous papers to Nature on March 24. When Pons and Fleischmann suddenly announced their "breakthrough" on March 23, Jones felt he had been sandbagged...
Chiron's initial breakthrough was to isolate a viral protein from blood samples taken from patients with non-A, non-B hepatitis. By cloning large quantities of the protein, the company was able to develop a test to detect its presence in blood. Chiron called the pathogen the "hepatitis-C virus." In clinical studies done at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and laboratories in Italy and Japan, blood samples from patients thought to have non-A, non-B hepatitis were screened using Chiron's test. At least 80% of the samples tested positive...
...blood, an insight that cut three years off the usual eight- year research-and-development cycle for a new drug. By displaying weather data on a computer, researchers at the University of Illinois have been able to capture the exact moment when a tornado forms within a thunderstorm, a breakthrough that if incorporated into an early-warning system, could one day save lives...
Some researchers claim that a breakthrough in nuclear physics has taken place, but experiments at other laboratories are yielding results that are confusing at best...