Word: breakthroughs
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...Towns himself: "Reston is the most courageous effort toward the building of a New Town yet undertaken. It is my fervent hope, and I am sure all progressive architects and planners share this hope, that the New Town of Reston will succeed. If so, this would mark a great breakthrough in community planning in our country...
Whether discovered by a flyby, an orbiter, or an ABL, the first proof of life on Mars will be a startling breakthrough in man's quest for knowledge. It will be evidence that life is a normal phenomenon in the universe, not just an oddity limited to the earth. And if life has developed on both the earth and Mars, it almost certainly exists on millions or billions of planets; some of its forms must be more intelligent than anything that man can now imagine...
...said Lyndon Johnson in his rambling pastoral prose, and many U.S. educators agree with him about the historic importance of the new law that is formally titled the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. "It is a tremendous breakthrough," says Atlanta School Superintendent John Letson. "As significant as the passing of social security legislation," says Lindley Stiles, dean of the University of Wisconsin's School of Education. New York State Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. forecasts a "tremendous impact" for the bill; to him, it symbolizes the fact that the knowledge explosion...
...bill authorizes the spending of $1.3 billion-a relatively small sum considering the fact that public education in the U.S. is an annual $34 billion business. The real breakthrough lies in the fact that the Federal Government has overcome a longstanding taboo and become a full-scale partner in grade-school education, both public and private. Thomas Braden, chairman of California's State Board of Education, sums it up this way: "With the rapid moving of families in our nation, the interlocking economy, the sense of a national community, it is archaic to think that education...
Robert McAfee Brown, professor of Religion at Stanford, said last night that the Catholic Church's admission of partial responsibility for the division of Christianity marks "a significant breakthrough in the ecumenical movement...