Word: barriere
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...plank on federally sponsored day-care centers for children, thereby challenging her own President, who had vetoed a child-care bill because, he felt, it would weaken the family. Refusing to take no for an answer, Peggy had a way of converting it to yes. "Language is a barrier," she says. "Words do not mean the same to men as to women." So she held a class for the men on the Platform Committee, who had probably not received such a lecture since they were caught filching apples from the orchard down the road. "I sure did learn...
...quarter of 1% , to 5½% -even though such a move had long been expected. A more basic reason for the Dow's strange behavior has nothing to do with the economy at all; the often-approached but never-broken 1,000 mark* has become a psychological barrier. Every time the Dow gets near that level some investors sell, believing that the value of their securities is reaching a peak. Now, 974 has evidently become the point at which the warning signal starts flashing in their minds. Says William Freund, chief economist for the New York Stock Exchange: "There...
...reminiscent of the Soviet invasion of Prague), headed for its assigned target. It rammed through a barricade of cement blocks, twisted pipe and the hulk of a burned-out bus. Then, at the crossroads known as "Free Derry Corner," it halted-blocked by the Bogside's most formidable barrier, a truck chassis embedded in solid concrete. The bulldozer poked at it, broke the great blade that projected from its snout, and finally backed off and rumbled away. Two days passed before jackhammer crews finally dismantled the barricade...
...occupied city and were later included in what is now East Berlin, even though they protruded like a battered thumb into central West Berlin. In 1961, when the Communists built the Wall to close off their portion of the divided city, they did not bother to extend the barrier around the perimeter of the barren site. Instead, they simply sealed it off from the rest of East Berlin with their "death strip...
...pole vault is technically the most difficult event in track and field; this year's Olympic contest may be the best ever. The 18-ft. barrier, narrowly broken in 1970 by Greek Chris Papanicolaou, was not disturbed again until last April, when Sweden's diminutive Kjell Isaksson soared 18 ft. 1 in. Since then the barrier has really been buffeted-including twice more by Isaksson and twice by Bob Seagren of the U.S. (TIME, June 19), a fledgling actor who hopes for a movie career. Seagren has cleared a world record height...