Drugs firms have not, for instance, come up with a breakthrough TB drug in many years, although some new ones look promising.There are several reasons for this.
It should come as little surprise that fashion designers have had their antennae up for a breakthrough star at the World Cup.
Tony Namkung, a senior advisor to Mr. Richardson and an Asia specialist who accompanied the governor to Pyongyang, said Tuesday: "This does not add up to a breakthrough or even a turning point.
Kilburn, Williams, and colleagues at Manchester also came up with a breakthrough that would revolutionize how a computer executed instructions: they made it possible for the address portion of an instruction to be modified while the program was running.
Just as in business, the only thing harder than coming up with a breakthrough innovation is keeping it out of the hands of the competition.(Photo credit: JOSE JORDAN / AFP).
Mr. Hartranft, who has disdain for what he sees as the soft, intuitive decision-making at many admissions offices, believes fervently that he has come up with a breakthrough tool to make admissions more exacting, if not scientific.
Her success in "Rent" set her up for a breakthrough record deal: she was quickly signed to Mercury Records, and she left "Rent" in 1997 to spend 18 months pouring her heart and soul into what was supposed to be her first solo album, "Souvenirs".
That a technology (email) that has been around for 40 years is held up as a breakthrough, in and of itself, is a statement.
Until World War I, the most common conception of the inventor was of a lone scientist or engineer laboring away in private, single-handedly coming up with a breakthrough during a Eureka ! moment.
Assuming negotiators can even come up with a breakthrough general framework for a new agreement involving services, agriculture and industrial products, it will take at least another year to translate these generalities into technical language.
