Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...locker room, perhaps the last defensible male bastion in journalism, has gone coed. Since the National Hockey League broke the ice last year, more and more pro teams are admitting women to the sanctuaries of sweat. It is perhaps the biggest breakthrough for female scribes since Jane Swisshelm became the first woman reporter to invade the congressional press gallery more than a century...
...tense moments, a compromise emerged at week's end. Negotiations on certain commodities-perhaps rubber and iron ore, among others-will begin before the end of the year. Though the hard-liners among the Group of 77, notably Peru and the Philippines, pressed for a final confrontation, the breakthrough came at 5 a.m. when Chief U.S. Negotiator
...Brian MacMahon, professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and a co-author of the report, said yesterday the report is not a significant breakthrough, but rather a confirmation of the work of others...
...relations with Congress are at their lowest ebb. Kissinger has just about given up hope of capping his career with a new Middle East breakthrough. Most important, the Secretary of State's great desire that a new Strategic Arms Limitation treaty with the Soviets could be signed this year is in grave jeopardy. Rumors swirl in Washington that he may quit in a couple of months. Says one of his aides: "Henry feels that the walls are closing...
...allowing the Concorde to land in the U.S. not only would prove detrimental to our relations with France and Britain but would show the world that the U.S., which has always been a leader in technological advancements, is hindering a major breakthrough...