Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scarcely an hour passed when he did not think about the hostages. The drama in Tehran has had a similar pull on the staff of TIME. Says Associate Editor Frank B. Merrick, who edited this week's cover story: "We started almost every week gearing up for a breakthrough." The roller-coaster crisis surfaced repeatedly in the pages of the magazine and was the subject of eight cover stories, including one on the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who was named TIME's Man of the Year...
...work was carried out in Switzerland by Karl Illmensee of the University of Geneva and Peter Hoppe of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., both veteran researchers in cell biology. Their breakthrough was not in conception -since the procedures for cloning are familiar. It lay rather in the surgeon-like skill and persistence with which they used microscopic instruments to transplant nuclei from cell to cell...
...technical analyst despite his homosexuality, but only after agreeing to lessen the danger of blackmail by disclosing his sexual preference to his family (mother, sisters and brothers). Franklin Kameny, a member of the Washington, D.C., Commission on Human Rights and a gay activist, calls the decision "a major breakthrough...
...Base and later at Fort Chaffee. Vernon Jordan is shot in May as well. In June science announces a breakthrough in recombinant DNA research, raising high hopes of cancer cures along with specters of genetic engineering and Andromeda strains. The prime lending rate at major banks soars to 21.5% in December, all but ensuring that 1981 will begin with a recession...
...officials had hoped that the proposal would be a breakthrough in the negotiations, since they had reportedly already agreed to two other demands, namely a U.S. pledge of noninterference in Iranian affairs and the unfreezing of $13 billion in U.S.-held Iranian assets. In its response to Iran's remaining demand, that all American claims against the Tehran government be canceled, the White House tried to explain that complex legal obstacles might make this difficult...