pathbreaking

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I spoke to three additional researchers who lauded the Johns Hopkins team for its pathbreaking work.

From The Wall Street Journal

Boritt’s first book, 1978’s “Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream,” praised as “pathbreaking” in The Wall Street Journal, argued that a key to understanding Lincoln was his conviction, fundamentally more economic than moral, that all men must be furnished with an opportunity to improve their lives and benefit from their own labor—“the right to rise,” as Boritt termed it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Founded in 1955, PIA was a symbol of national pride and rapid growth for years, with a pathbreaking international network and even flight attendant uniforms created by French designer Pierre Cardin in the 1960s.

From Barron's

In 1921 he fashioned a pathbreaking reorganization of Goodyear, but the plan put Dillon in control while sticking the manufacturer with high interest payments.

From The Wall Street Journal

Our modern understanding of mobility began with the pathbreaking work of Gary Becker and Nigel Tomes in 1979.

From The Wall Street Journal