Word: breakthroughs
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...Ohio, anyone who types your name into a county database can learn your address and how much your house is worth. He can also inspect detailed floor plans of your house, showing placement of your windows, porches and balconies. Supporters of the state's online initiative call it a breakthrough for open access to government records. Critics have another way of describing it: a breaking-and-entering handbook...
...Meanwhile, Yorkin and Lear's breakthrough with "Family" has prompted a host of imitators ? led by Yorkin and Lear. The best of the shows to explore the comic territory they opened up is their "Sanford and Son" (also adapted from a British original), which made its debut on NBC last January...
...Kyoto, whatever its drawbacks, did contain one breakthrough: an architecture that would have allowed countries to reduce emissions through a credit-trading system. The concept was pioneered by the President's father in his Clean Air Act, which cut acid rain in half by allowing U.S. utilities to trade sulfur dioxide credits. Today the system would permit the industrialized countries to trade carbon-emission credits (basically licenses to emit specific amounts of greenhouse gases) among one another and participating developing countries. Because climate change is a global problem, its solution is ideally suited to an international-trading regime. Such trading...
...then real, fully formed people will suffer and die for your abstract point of principle. In fact, real people will suffer and die as a result of any compromise that partly accommodates your abstract principle. For that matter, real people will suffer and die because of the months every breakthrough has been delayed while Bush looks for a compromise. And because of Clinton's compromise. And because of all the years federal stem-cell research was banned before that...
...breakthrough finally came when Hou Hsiao-hsien cast her in Millennium Mambo as Vicky, a nightclub hostess torn between two men. Hou initially worried that Shu Qi wouldn't be daring enough, that she didn't have the artistic depth to push herself to explore the far range of emotional experiences. "My first impression was that she was completely overworked," says the director. "Hong Kong's film industry does not provide, like Hollywood, systematic help to provide a good acting environment to inspire professional works. A lot of actors and actresses in Taiwan and Hong Kong become weary...