Word: barriere
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...list of questions could be extended, but to do so would miss one of the major reasons why M.I.T. doesn't want the Belt Route either intruding upon or adjacent to its campus: the Institute opposes the highway both as a physical barrier to related developments (like Technology Square, and the new NASA research center) and an impediment to M.I.T.'s expansion westward. It was for this reason that M.I.T. did not differentiate between the "rail-road" route and the Portland-Albany St. route, which lies to the West and would not take a significant number of the Institute...
...five-man panel made up of members of the group also discussed the long-range implications of U.S. development of chemical warfare. "Biological weapons are small and cheap; their use and perfection will lower the barrier to irresponsible war," Meselson continued...
...great legislative and judicial battles have been won. Local obstructionism yields, barrier by barrier, community by community, under the weight of law and the pressure of protest...
Less successful was the car that on Christmas night swerved out of a line of vehicles at another checkpoint, tried to crash the barrier pole. Communist guards, their marksmanship enhanced by the lights on a 20-ft.-high Christmas tree they had cynically erected near the Wall, opened fire. Horst Schöneberger, 24, of Dortmund, West Germany, was wounded and hauled away with two East German girls in the car (the Reds sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just...
...Edward VI's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Prayer Book was an attempt to combine and simplify the services of the English church in a language understood by the people. Today, however, pastors frequently complain that the Prayer Book's stately, frosty prose is often more of a barrier to prayer than an invitation...