Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Video-game nostalgia has arrived. Never mind that the genre is less than two decades old. The first coin- operated video game -- a rather drab, black-and-white job called Computer Space -- was introduced in 1971, to a notably tepid reception. Since then, arcades have seen a parade of breakthrough hits, technological advances, a boom period and then a falloff in popularity. Enough has happened, in short, for the American Museum of the Moving Image to assemble a collection of nearly 50 classic video games and call it historical scholarship. The exhibit, Hot Circuits: A Video Arcade, complete with earnest...
Zorrilla, who quit as DFS chief in 1985, was arrested, and is expected to be charged with murder. Solving the crime would be a breakthrough for President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who is refurbishing his image by going after people thought to be untouchable...
...operating record." Peters concluded, "We don't think this interrupts our progress." The contrary view was expressed by Scott Denman, executive director of the Safe Energy Communications Council in Washington. The vote was a "proverbial shot heard round the world," he said, adding, "This is an unprecedented breakthrough for advocates of economical and safe energy and a severe blow to the hopes of reviving the troubled nuclear energy industry...
...have long pointed to the potential benefits of altered animals -- disease-resistant pigs, fast-growing cows and the like. Medical researchers are already using engineered mice to study the mechanics of cancer and heart disease. But genetic engineering is a process that involves many difficult steps, and the new breakthrough will at best simplify just one of them...
...forbidding gap between private lives and that distant sense of a common ground was first bridged on April 26, when 150,000 people flooded the square to show disapproval of an inflammatory People's Daily editorial that denounced the students. "That was a major breakthrough in Chinese modern history," says Roderick MacFarquahar, director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. It marked the "first time since 1949 that a demonstration by society against the state was made successfully in the face of a powerful government...