Word: barriere
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...morning meeting from 9 until noon, a break for lunch, then an hour or two in the afternoon; each session opens with a pot of steaming green tea. All are conducted in English, through an interpreter supplied by the Chinese. (Japanese businessmen complain that they face a greater language barrier than Americans, since many more Chinese speak English than Japanese.) Nonetheless, it is wise for Americans to bring their own interpreter, if they can find one skilled in both the Chinese language and U.S. business terms. Misunderstandings do occur; once some Boeing negotiators, slipping into airline slang, referred...
...admissability of hearsay evidence in CRR hearings forms the greatest potential barrier to a fair hearing. Students left with no defense in the face of evidence that can now be produced without any satisfactory method of establishing its truth. Furthermore. The Faculty Council's action preserves an appeals system which only goes right back...
...shown at the Baghdad conference of rejectionists and with respect to the rise in the price of oil that it has opted for a more autonomous course from us. I think all of these tendencies will be magnified by the turbulence in Iran. Geopolitically, this area has been a barrier to Soviet expansion, and it has defined the limits of Soviet influence. Such countries as Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia have had a clear-cut foreign policy orientation. There is now a great danger that this will become much more ambiguous and therefore an area of enormous uncertainty...
...dismal 35 per cent field goal percentage in the first half sunk the Crimson beyond the point of return, and the capacity crowd was left wondering only if Penn could break the 100 barrier, which it did, with about a minute remaining...
...Steve Boehlke, 30, director of youth fellowship at Ridgewood's West Side Presbyterian Church, agrees. "These kids feel they have to look out for themselves because no one else will. It's a very lonely experience." To break through that psychological barrier, Boehlke is forming a new group, a fellowship of adult church members who want to learn how to relate to their children. Eighty parents came to the first meeting...