Word: barriere
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...Mount Olympus, the Faculty has spoken: the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities will not be reformed, nor will the Resolution that charters it be revised. Although purportedly distressed by the evaporation of the student trust that is supposed to have once existed here the Faculty inexplicably erects yet another barrier to the redemption of that trust by refusing to consider even the most modest attempts to reform the disciplinary process...
...hours before the cease-fire began, more than 400 South Vietnamese marines seized a beachhead on the Cua Viet River, the last natural barrier south of the DMZ. The following night, and again the night after, the North Vietnamese counterattacked, killing at least 150 of the marines...
FROLIZI does not plan to wait for the verdict of history. In fact, if the border closure did anything, it changed a frontier to a front and encouraged the guerrillas to make ever-bolder attacks. They have already infiltrated Rhodesia through Mozambique, where there is no river barrier. In recent weeks, a score of Rhodesian and South African policemen (who help with border patrolling) have been killed or wounded. In addition, three civilians have been killed and five wounded in border areas...
...MOST IMMEDIATE barrier is her ignorance of the language, a problem which she equates with being deaf. All statements came to her through a government-provided interpreter, and even her English-speaking contacts chose to speak Chinese, perhaps out of consideration for the note-taking government observers...
...relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutors table is to be a high table in position as well as in name, for it will be located on a platform raised above the rest of the dining room. Thus a barrier is created which, though small, will make less attractive the opportunity for students to dine at the tutors' table, and will probably diminish the number of those...