Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter century ago, Clapton abandoned the Yardbirds, the group with whom he first made his reputation, because he felt them edging away from the purity of rhythm and blues in order to pursue pop success. The song which eventually gave the Yardbirds their commercial breakthrough and over which Clapton resigned was the Graham Gouldman tune, "For Your Love...
Says Graduate School of Education ProfessorNathan Glazer, "It is a breakthrough. It certainlymeans that a Black candidate who wants to reachout to a white electorate and win can do that...
...there's hope for all those teams that have suffered through the "Little Red Riding Hood" syndrome in the 1980s after last year's breakthrough, when the Detroit Pistons swept through the playoffs and took the Lakers in four games for the NBA Championship. Finally, the NBA trophy wasn't bathed in Celtic green or Laker gold...
...think we've witnessed in the last several years in our country, as well as in our city, a historic breakthrough between our two countries," Duehay said...
...same vein, many computer customers believe the industry's innovative efforts at the moment are failing to fill users' needs. They believe the expansion during the early and mid-1980s was based largely on the proliferation of such breakthrough products as the Apple II personal computer (1977); WordStar, the wordprocessing program (1979); VisiCalc, an electronic accounting ledger or spreadsheet (1979); the IBM PC (1981); Apple's Macintosh, with its advanced graphics capability (1984); and desktop- publishing gear like Aldus PageMaker...