Without the promise of a breakthrough on that front, the issue of occupation will again overwhelm the Palestinian agenda.
It could be a breakthrough year on that.
Finally, the paper stresses the benefit of prospects of multilateral collaboration to join skills and share efforts of R&D to achieve in the nuclear field breakthroughs on materials that have already been achieved over the past decades in other industry sectors (aeronautics, metallurgy, chemistry, etc.).
Cheriton says he avoids pursuing market whims–he considers social networking one of them and stays focused on breakthroughs that make measurable improvements to human life, such as the way Google helps a college junior complete a research paper at 3 a.m.
Even as Mr. Fujimori's search for his former top aide was roundly questioned, government and opposition negotiators made several breakthroughs on Friday night that will return the ownership of two television stations to two former owners who lost their properties during the last few years after broadcasters criticized the government and Mr. Montesinos.
This night was a breakthrough of sorts on that issue as well.
Within this context, people in big companies tend to focus more on protecting and preserving their existing businesses than on breakthrough innovations that might cannibalize or destroy them.
"Designed for iPhone and iPod users, the Image S4i is a breakthrough product that simplifies on-the-go lifestyles you can take calls while commuting or exercising, as well as control your music library," said Don Inmon, Klipsch director of marketing and product development for personal audio.
By way of example, he mentions the recent funding for the Virtual Reality company Oculus Rift, pursuing VR technology -- now poised to make breakthroughs on and offline -- that had been ignored by traditional media companies and VC funders.
But the White House effort to build on that breakthrough to forge a long-term budget deal with House Speaker John A. Boehner crashed amid resistance from the Republican rank and file to Mr. Obama's conception of fairness and balance.
