Word: barriere
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...would strongly prefer a national test of aptitude for which it is not quite so easy to prepare. Because the SAT allows wealthy students to buy their way to the top, it acts as a barrier to social mobility. When some students can afford expensive SAT tutors or lenient doctors but others cannot, disparities in wealth are carried over into the scores, which then become an inaccurate representation of the students’ true abilities...
Expedia Inc. has broken the elusive online profit barrier. In its first-ever trip to the black, the mostly Microsoft-owned online travel-booking service announced Monday that it expects to report an operating profit of $4 million for the quarter ended in March, with quarterly revenues up 88 percent and gross bookings up 68 percent from this time last year...
...went. Colby went too far, won not one but two too many challenges, and suddenly he was way past smooth-it-over-with-a-little-piece-of-the-Great Barrier Reef. Missing its teeth, hair and pecs, the Ogakor alliance of cards crumbled, and Amber went, but only because Colby had that durn necklace on. And now we'll see how far the direct route gets the cowboy now that he's traveling it alone...
...truth is that the policies and procedures are in place to protect students. This includes open, barrier-free access to medical services...
...that the psychological barrier to arresting Milosevic has been breached, will he be sent to The Hague to face a war crimes trial...