Word: barriere
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Early in the morning, shoppers lined up behind a rope guarding the entrance to the ten-story building. At precisely 8:30, an attendant dropped the barrier, and the race was on. The buyers sprinted through the doorways for the elevators; some of the more vigorous bounded up stairways in an attempt to get ahead of the crowd. It was not a rush for cut-rate panty hose at a discount house; rather, it was the scene at this spring's version of the semiannual Canton Trade Fair, where Chinese traders showed off their wares to the largest collection...
...Language Barrier...
...world is that of simple, usual things, torn from everyday context and tossed together flippantly into generalized space. There are letters: big, blocky, physical letters, and simple words mapped out in a landscape, drawn with the qualities of their meaning. "Yes" rolls downhill on wheels, about to strike the barrier of a gigantic "but." Years of prosperity are shown as labeled building stones, arranged in reverse pyramid on top of the single block "1933." A rank of businessmen march with one step across the dotted line separating "Monday" from "Tuesday...
...Another barrier to Harvard's selling beer and wine is also falling, Kenneth W. Robbins, a research director for the State legislature, said Tuesday. A bill that would permit universities to sell alcoholic beverages to persons 18 or older--a detail left out of the original law changing the drinking age--is waiting for Governor Francis Sargent's signature...
...months ago. Far more frightening to brokers, there are growing indications that a sizable slice of the public has been turned off stock investments. The latest New York Stock Exchange survey shows that in 1972-the very year in which the Dow Jones average finally cracked the magic 1000 barrier the number of individuals who own stock dropped by 800,000, to 31.7 million. The decline was the first since the Big Board began its surveys...