Word: breakthroughs
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Captain Darren Dinneen had a breakthrough meet against Yale, winning the 800-meter and 1500-meter events. Dinneen was an NCAA qualifier last season, and he may be as healthy right now as he has been all year...
...Another breakthrough that may help German women is a welter of decisions coming out of the European Union. A finding by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg puts the onus on the employer to prove it did not discriminate when a pregnant woman is fired. That could strengthen the hand of women like Breloh--who has found a solution. She has set up her own agency with some of her former clients, and it is expanding. In the long run, if companies don't adapt to changing times, they may find that their former female managers have become their...
...rapaciousness of the apparel industry--the main beneficiaries of the present brutal system. With dogged determination, they have challenged hundreds of administrators across the country to take responsibility for the production practices behind shirts and baseball caps being sold in college bookstores. Earlier this month there was a significant breakthrough. Students and administrators representing nearly 50 institutions of higher learning gathered in New York's historic Judson Memorial Church at the founding conference of the Workers Rights Consortium...
...Nashville skyline beckons like a shimmering Oz to lots of young country musicians, but for Shelby Lynne and Neko Case, it's a cityscape better seen from a rearview mirror. Working outside the country- music capital, the two singer-songwriters have each released breakthrough albums that go to the heart of Nashville by redefining what a country song...
...finally having a breakthrough moment, and it's happening online. Through July 4, Harper is offering listeners eight never-before-released live performances. The concert tracks are available only online www.benharperdownload.com and are distributed by Liquid Audio. One of the tracks, Nobody's Fault (a cover of a blues standard made famous by Blind Willie Johnson), is free, but the other tracks cost $1.99 each to download, or $9.99 for all seven...