Word: barriere
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...bridge just as the charges were tripped. Only a few detonated, though witnesses from both armies insisted that the span lifted off its stone foundations, then settled back down. Before the Germans could set more explosives, the Americans had taken the bridge and crossed the river, the last natural barrier between them and the German heartland...
Carrabino currently has 1835 career points. Only three players in Ivy League history have scored 1900 or more, and only two of those have broke the magical 2000 barrier...
Despite its awkwardness, the ceremony put an end to the years of tension between Britain and Spain that have kept the barrier between the Spanish mainland and Europe's last remaining colony tightly locked. Indeed the opening of the gate was a precondition for the holding of talks between Britain and Spain over the Rock's future. For the Spanish, who next year hope to enter the European Community, the reopening was a political necessity to improve relations with Britain...
...stores selling consumer goods and food at reduced prices. They live far removed from the common man and, indeed, have to go out of their way if they wish to rub elbows with the less exalted. The highest group in the nomenklatura is separated from most citizens by a barrier as psychologically imposing as the Great Wall of China. This class constitutes virtually a state within a state...
...biggest barrier to Apple's office invasion will be IBM, whose army of sales and service personnel has fostered fierce devotion among most corporate computer users. Apple has always boasted about its better technology and never worked to make its machines compatible with Big Blue's. But in a shift last week Apple changed its strategy from Blue busting to detente with IBM. Conceding that many firms will rely partially on IBM equipment, Apple has decided it must coexist by devising both software and hardware adapters that will give its machines the ability to communicate with IBM's gear...