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This was a huge breakthrough, as not only did it give Microsoft a steady and reliable revenue stream, but it also established its legitimacy as a software developer...
...Politics at a certain level is pop. You have to get your record on the radio for people to pay attention." ? Bono, U2 frontman, on his tour of Africa with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill "I've used the term breakthrough three times in my career. This is one of them." ? Larry Norton, doctor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center, on Novartis' Gleevec "What are they going to attack next, the mute button?" ? Ken Potashner, CEO of SONICblue, on efforts to stop digital video recorders from skipping commercials
...conservative industry of network television, showing that a healthy black family and a comedy show are not mutually exclusive categories was a big breakthrough...
Patterson, who had been a non-factor on the Harvard scoreboard for nearly his entire career, had a breakthrough meet at Heps last week when he won the discus with a throw of 50.84 meters...
...sense, the news last week that scientists have created a "roborat" represents an ingenious technical breakthrough. Engineers have tried for years--without success--to build robots smart enough to cross even a railroad track. Now, by combining off-the-shelf technology with a creature whose maneuvering skills have been honed by millions of years of evolution, physiologists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn have created remotely piloted rodents that navigate complex terrain at the will of controllers who are more than 500 yards away. Wearing tiny backpacks equipped with radio transmitters and miniature...