Word: barriere
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Enjoyable as Kabuki is, it has elements that Westerners may find difficult. The musical accompaniment-voices, flutes, drums and three-stringed plucked instruments called shamisens- is of real but recondite beauty. Performances are long, running close to four hours. And there is the language barrier as well...
...horseshoe around Port Stanley. Harrier vertical-takeoff jets pounded the area with 600-lb. cluster bombs, while 4.5-in. guns on Royal Navy frigates and destroyers added their drumbeat of fire. As the week began, the dense, rain-filled clouds that shrouded Port Stanley seemed to be the only barrier to a full-scale attack. But Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward and Major General John Jeremy Moore, the two commanders to whom Prime Minister Thatcher had entrusted the final decision on how to take Port Stanley, were apparently also eager to avoid a military bloodbath. They were especially worried about...
...part of his departmental colleagues and University administrators had dictated the reappointment decision. The committee took six years to complete its task, and the result, says Hartman, was a standoff "Evidence of lots of violations was uncovered, but my claim could not be definitely proven. The insurmountable barrier was that every key figure in the decision who could have provided evidence to support my contentions--ex and current department chairmen and deans, even President Pusey refused to cooperate fully with the investigating committee the faculty itself...
WHEN DISCUSSING alternative ways for regulating alcohol here masters say they are opposed to "carding" because they feel it creates a divisive atmosphere between those above and below the 20 year -old barrier imposed when the age was raised in 1979. At a Boston University pub this split is literal with a partition separating the room into two halves when rock groups only perform one set on weekend nights. And at Boston College--where only one keg of beer per party is permitted--the campus has three different alcohol policies according to age and location on campus. Certainly practices similar...
...Jerusalem, Israelis were locked in a series of struggles on a number of fronts. They were striving to maintain a tight hold on the occupied Arab territories and trying to adjust at the same time to the trauma of withdrawing at long last from the Sinai, the great desert barrier that separates them from Egypt...