Word: breakthroughs
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...that said, the odds are still against a breakthrough deal. North Korea's problems go way beyond electricity; for a start, its economy is still only about half its 1980s size. That makes it doubtful that it will trade in its best bargaining chip?nuclear weapons?for a South Korean offer that, while generous and serious, nonetheless addresses only one aspect of the Stalinist state's overall needs...
...will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come up with a response as imaginative as Gorbachev's. In arms-control negotiations, skepticism is always necessary but rarely sufficient. --By George J. Church. Reported by James O. Jackson/Moscow and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...last week the two aging wunderkinder announced that they want to join forces in an effort to score a breakthrough or two in what they see as the next big thing: computer-based toys. They hope to merge Wozniak's current venture, CL9, which makes remote-control devices for home electronics, with Bushnell's Axlon, the manufacturer of talking bears and other high-tech pets. The deal, which they are still negotiating, could involve a cashless swap of each other's stock...
COVER: In Iceland, a breakthrough on arms control stumbles over Star Wars...
...idealistic teacher. The unresponsive institution. The brave deaf children struggling to overcome their handicap. The particularly difficult case. The breakthrough. The setbacks. The ultimate triumph. Children of a Lesser God omits nothing from the formula that guarantees a work to be routinely moving...