Word: breakthroughs
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Most frustratingly, the best of those chances came to naught just seconds prior to Northeastern’s final breakthrough...
...social difficulties and seemed tied to his obsession with puzzles. Cohen says he has trouble censoring his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology. Now he has a new task: fending off accusations by the Hollywood film industry that a breakthrough piece of software he wrote is threatening the movie business the way Napster menaced--and subsequently revolutionized--the music world...
...believe that conditions have been created that will allow us and the Palestinians to reach a historic breakthrough." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, in his most optimistic comments since the election of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas...
Iraq's first competitive election in a half-century - which, despite its serious flaws, marked an historic breakthrough for the democratic principle in Iraq-has been claimed by President Bush as Exhibit A in his global mission to spread freedom. "Today, the people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East," the President said Sunday, greeting news reports that voter turnout had been greater than expected. Expectations, of course, had been gloomy, as the raging insurgency had effectively precluded most campaign activity, and voters...
...None of this may make a difference. Iraq may be beyond salvaging; Iran may not be talked out of its desire for a nuclear bomb. But there is hope for a breakthrough between the Israelis and Palestinians, and a world of other problems to address. A less peremptory, more conciliatory-though still tough-minded, conservative-U.S. foreign policy could help with all of these. Even the hawks are grudgingly aware of the limits of military action in the Islamic world...