Word: breakthroughs
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...goal marked a breakthrough after Vaillancourt had been generating numerous chances for herself and her teammates all game by diving in toward the net and focusing on throwing rebounds back...
...company that once had a magic touch--creating the Walkman, Trinitron TV and PlayStation, among other breakthrough products--has run adrift in an age of increasing competition and digital convergence. Its core electronics business, which accounts for more than 60% of revenues (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors, ranging from Sharp televisions to Kodak digital cameras, in virtually all its product lines. Most humiliating: Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files--a gap that Apple's iPod has exploited masterfully. The company...
Kwon-taek began to seriously explore the artistic possibilities of film in the 1970s, and his 1981 film Mandala is widely regarded as his critical breakthrough...
...tsunami left more than 123,000 dead in Indonesia's Aceh province. But when negotiators in Helsinki last week announced a breakthrough in talks between separatist rebels and the Indonesian government, it appeared that some good might come from the tragedy. The Free Aceh Movement, known as GAM, offered to drop its demand for independence. "There's not a single member of the GAM negotiating team who hasn't lost family members in the tsunami," says Damien Kingsbury, an Australian academic who advised the rebel negotiators in Finland. "There's a very deep sense of loss and the suffering...
...Harrison’s breakthrough is the similarity between HIV and SIV, or simian immunodeficiency virus, and “noticing that this particular construct derived from SIV is stable” enough to yield crystals, whereas “standard HIV constructs are not stable,” said Harrison...