Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...States can play this role, namely that of mediator between two sides that harbor intense hate for one another-a gulf of bad blood, violence, and massacres. The United States did not impose the first disengagement agreement: she intervened to achieve a breakthrough and overcome the apparent impasse. The heading of the first disengagement document reads: American Proposal. Hence my assertion that the United States holds 99% of the cards in this game. And I shall go on saying this, even if it angers the others, namely the Soviet agents and the Soviets themselves...
...following year Penders made his real breakthrough, when he corralled Juan Mitchell, Ricky Free and Alton Byrd, who form the nucleus of the present squad. Byrd is the linchpin of Columbia's attack: despite missing eight games this year, he managed to set Columbia's all-time career assist record...
Actually, Hank Williams Jr. has been a country singer since his teens, but it was only with the breakthrough Hank Williams Jr. and Friends album of two years ago that his playing was marked with anything but blandness. Then came a rock-climbing trip to Montana, and an accident that left him in the hospital for six months, a desperate interlude during which his mother died. But with last fall's One Night Stands and now The New South Hank Jr. is back, capturing what it is to be Hank Williams' son and what it's like...
...cheap that it could be easily incorporated into almost any device that might benefit from some "thinking" power: electric typewriters with a memory, cameras, elevator controls, a shopkeeper's scales, vending machines, and a huge variety of household appliances. The new chip also represented another kind of breakthrough: because its program was on a different chip, the microprocessor could be "taught" to do any number of chores. All that had to be done was to substitute a tiny program chip with fresh instructions. In a memorable display of this versatility, the Pro-Log Corp. of Monterey, Calif., built what...
...Carter had convinced him that Israel wanted a detailed and permanent resolution of the Middle East conflict rather than a mere termination of the long state of belligerency. Sadat felt that he had amply responded by his spectacular visit to Israel in November, his "sacred mission." But after that breakthrough, Egyptian officials argued, Israel balked at making any real concessions. "There has even been some retrogression," said one Egyptian diplomat, "since the Israelis now are insisting on retaining and defending their settlements in the Sinai...