Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Rhodes, 53, is an author whose breakthrough book was the 1988 Pulitzer- prizewinning The Making of the Atomic Bomb. The connection between events leading to Los Alamos and an obscure domestic tragedy in Kansas City is not readily apparent -- except to the author. Each story, writes Rhodes, "focuses on one or several men of character who confront violence, resist it or endure it and discover beyond its inhumanity a narrow margin of hope...
...LIFE (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. EDT). Chris Elliott, former Late Night with David Letterman cutup, plays a nerdy 30-year-old still living with his parents. Elliott's manic gooniness is an acquired taste, but this so-dumb- it's-funny sitcom could be his breakthrough to mainstream success...
...With the breakthrough by Baker and Shevardnadze in an arms-control effort that began in Vienna way back in 1973 as the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks, the CSCE summit is firmly set. The completed arms treaty will be signed by the U.S., the Soviet Union and their allies. They will then turn their attention to launching a new security organization...
...breakthrough occurred at a White House breakfast for Democratic leaders on June 26. House Speaker Tom Foley urged Bush to make a short statement that "tax increases" would be a part of any budget accord. When Bush asked Foley to suggest such a statement, one observer said, "a lot of jaws in that room dropped." Foley dictated a version off the top of his head. Darman said it would take only a few minutes to draft, and began writing. He showed the draft to Sununu, who passed it to Foley. After a few changes, Bush looked it over, called...
...negative consequences would not end there. The stability of poorer nations, including emerging East European democracies that will rely heavily on exports, would be seriously undermined. So would the chances of organizing alliances to deal with such international crises as the face-off in the Persian Gulf. A breakthrough is still possible, Hills declares, "because the upside is so fantastic and the downside of failure is so grim." But the odds of success, she says, are only slightly better than even...