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...they were. Renovations only meant rent increases and eviction notices. The conflict between the University and the residents, which a week later resulted in a tenants' victory and a scaled-down renovation plan, leaving out the luxury improvements, started Wyatt thinking that there must be some communications barrier. He wondered why the University was trying to create luxury apartments when the tenants preferred housing they could afford...
What appears to be the most promising solution may also be the simplest: a cable of thick nylon strands would be strung across a 3.1-mile-wide passage near the glacier to block outbound icebergs. Similar barriers already help keep Greenland harbors free of drifting bergs. A feasibility study directed by Kollmeyer concluded that 20 men could put the cable in place within 40 days after the glacier's retreat is confirmed. Estimated cost: $31.1 million. Declares Don Ryan, a marine safety specialist for the Coast Guard: "So far, no one has suggested that our study is wrong...
...condition of physical impairment such as paraplegia (paralysis of the lower limbs), deafness or blindess. The term handicap, however, can be defined more generally as anything that substantially impedes normal activity. The two concepts need not be synonymous. A person in a wheelchair, when provided with a barrier-free environment (e.g., curb cuts, ramps, accessible toilet facilities, lowered telephones, drinking fountains and elevator buttons) may experience no handicap whatsoever. In contrast, a shopper wearing elevator shoes and carrying several bulky packages may not have a physical disability but certainly would be handicapped...
...around the field to keep cars off the grass. Garner says this is "technically a temporary change which just keeps the cars off the field." He adds that the Planning Office has not yet drawn up a permanent plan, which might involve sinking curbstones or a similar type of barrier to keep cars off the grass...
...important contemporary source of nationalism is the provincial civil service. Created rapidly during the Quiet Revolution, it has channelled the empire-building impulse common to most bureaucracies in a nation-building direction. Because of the language barrier separating French civil servants from the English corporate world, Quebec's bureaucrats are less immediately sensitive to conservative business influence than are most other bureaucracies. The consequence of rapidly creating a nationalist and non-business oriented civil service is that the bureaucracy itself is a powerful motor force for Quebec's independence...