Word: barriere
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...newest Israeli countermeasure is an electronic barrier that stretches about 40 miles along the Jordan River Valley. The fence is a smaller version of the one that former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once envisioned putting up in Viet Nam below the DMZ to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries...
Scared to Speak. If complacency has helped to stave off 20th century safety precautions underground, economics has been an even more formidable barrier...
...that goes with it, whether exercised or not. Charles de Gaulle's defiant and determined effort to preserve the parity of the franc cannot mask the reality of France's diminished stature. In order to stop the outflow of francs, France is now sealed behind a monetary barrier, deprived of much of the economic freedom that De Gaulle has used in the past to act as arbiter of Europe and counterweight to West Germany. Nothing so underscored France's reduced position as the cancellation of next year's nuclear tests in the Pacific, in which France...
...because, to speak symbolically, someone has to collect the garbage. I disagree. Why can't machines do the collecting? Why is it impossible that everybody might help? If actions were not dictated by your desire for wealth, garbage collecting would be like any other job. There is no theoretical barrier to a good society. One just has to try to achieve it; other animal societies have. The bees, for example, and they have evolved for at least a billion years longer than man so there must be something rational about the direction...
...time the real show began we were so nervous we were glad at the arrival of 250 new minds to cope with. The audience was one of us. But alas, we were cut off from them by a barrier of Meanies wielding "Applaud" signs and using and clapping to make them laugh. The only way the audience could get its licks in was by responding to something, we initiated...