Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broker production cuts among major oil producers to sop up a global glut that has recently pushed prices to a 12-year low, barely higher in real terms than in 1973. After several days of haggling at meetings in Europe and the Persian Gulf, Naimi finally announced a breakthrough: Iran, Algeria, Venezuela, Mexico and the Saudis agreed to press OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and non-OPEC countries for a 2 million- bbl.-a-day reduction in the flow of crude, a figure equivalent to nearly 3% of world output...
...m.p.h. Speed that light traveled during Danish physicist Lene Hau's breakthrough refraction process...
...situations," chants hip-hop ingenue Lauryn Hill on the album that won her five Grammy Awards. And the 23-year-old's record-breaking sweep confirms the point -- the music industry knows where its bread is buttered. With rap music traditionally confined to its own Grammy niche, Hill's breakthrough in such categories as Best Album and Best New Artist came after a year in which hip-hop acts sold twice as many albums as their rock 'n' roll counterparts...
...fashion and beauty industry, this is considered a breakthrough," Wenke said...
...fashion and beauty industry, this is considered a breakthrough," Wenke said...