Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incredible breakthrough. But the Flock is blind to the bright future Jonathan has opened to knowledge and perfect flight. They cast him out. Alone now, Jonathan improves his flying-night navigation, slow rolls, loops, the gull bunt. Eventually two radiant gulls who can fly precise formation with him appear and take him to what he (and the reader) at first thinks is heaven...
...real breakthrough came on Oct. 8, as Kissinger arrived at a spacious villa used by the North Vietnamese near the town of Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris, for this 19th meeting with Le Due Tho. The North Vietnamese began the quiet Sunday-morning session with a ritual demand for a political settlement, and then asked for a two-hour break. Kissinger spent the time walking through the surrounding oak and beech forests, pondering what would come next. The setting had the kind of historical cachet that delights Kissinger. It was at Rambouillet, with its 14th century chateau, once...
...Kissinger achieves breakthrough in secret talks with North Vietnamese...
...services should be supplied to the world by the countries that can produce them most economically and efficiently. Shipbuilders contend that the federal assistance will eventually make U.S. firms competitive in selling some kinds of vessels, especially sophisticated, computer-run models like the LNG. Some kind of cost breakthrough is undoubtedly necessary to make U.S. products salable overseas, but no such hopes really exist for many of the less advanced ships that are now subsidized...
...what appears to be a breakthrough for a people previously excluded from this important medium is instead another cruel hoax played on the black community. Blacks have been let into the movies, but only in roles that perpetuate derogatory stereotypes or create counter-productive myths...