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...dozen N.A.B. publishers were not marketing it as a "Catholic" Bible, but the work has its sectarian aspects. The most obvious one is inclusion of the Old Testament Apocrypha. Though Anglicans occasionally use these books in services, no Protestant group regards them as Scripture, which makes them a major barrier to any common Bible. One N.A.B. footnote specifies that Peter himself is the "rock" on which the church is founded; Protestants consider the verse a play on words in which Jesus renamed the apostle Petros because of the petra (rock) of his confession of faith...
...Secrecy Barrier. Active job seekers, however, have had little better luck. Ed Spoehel, 44, a computer-program designer, was laid off on Aug. 3 from a job with TRW Inc. that paid around $20,000. He now subsists on weekly unemployment compensation of $65, some income that his wife picks up writing a column for a local paper, and regular withdrawals from his savings account. He has phoned at least 100 companies but got "only two meaningful interviews"-which did not land a job. His work was not only specialized but so secret that he cannot describe exactly what...
...legal barrier had fallen, human barriers remained. A black ninth-grader described his first day in the integrated high school this way: "You say hello to the whites in the hall and they don't even speak. It seems like we're never gonna get there...
...cabinet full of academic-achievement tests, a carton of mimeographed math and reading drills, and a pile of pocket-size dictionaries. "This is our school," he says. In the past five years, the cart's contents have brought 2,500 school dropouts all they need to crack the barrier between them and a better job: a high school equivalency diploma...
...person cannot commit suicide when and where he wants in an impulsive moment," says Shneidman, "he might just say the hell with it." At a meeting last week, the board accepted Shneidman's proposal to consider installing a physical barrier against would-be jumpers...