Word: breakthrough
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...very peculiar situation now. We've been waiting for years and years for a breakthrough in the Arab world. I used to dream that if this would happen, we'd be dancing the hora in the streets of Tel Aviv. And yet there's a mood of gloom in Israel. Either the peace is a failure, and I don't think it is, or someone has failed to project the peace the way it should be. And who is it but a leader who is to project...
Illinois is the only major industrial state that has not ratified; the pro-ERA forces believe that they must make a breakthrough there. Beginning late last year, the National Organization for Women waged a campaign comparable to the efforts of a presidential candidate in a must-win primary state. NOW opened field operations in all 59 state legislative districts and created 130 ten-member "action teams" to sponsor pro-ERA meetings...
When debate opened three weeks ago on federal spending in 1981, House Budget Committee Chairman Robert Giaimo of Connecticut predicted that Congress was about to achieve a "historic breakthrough"-the first balanced budget in twelve years. Last week the House did just that, voting by 225 to 193 to spend $611.8 billion in the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1. The budget projects a $2 billion surplus, in contrast to the $42.8 billion deficit on 1980 spending of $571.6 billion...
TIME'S Hong Kong connection is the latest breakthrough in a continuing campaign to speed the magazine's production and distribution processes. Last summer we introduced a computerized composition system that sets type, combines it with black-and-white pictures and produces a finished page ready for the presses, a process that is used to take many hands and many hours. Also last summer, TIME began to eliminate its dependence on conventional transportation by sending completed pages by telephone line simultaneously to computers in our U.S. printing plants and to one in The Netherlands, where copies for Europe...
...greatest breakthrough in pension board representation has come in a company that desperately needs the cooperation of its union. In return for permission to defer its pension-fund contribution, Chrysler consented to a union demand for a joint advisory board on pensions. Three representatives from Chrysler and three from the United Auto Workers will oversee the investment of 10 per cent of each year's net increase in pension money for "socially desirable" ends. In addition, the union can veto investments in up to five companies every year as a result of ties to South Africa...