Word: barriere
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...same time, also 30 months ahead of schedule, the Council of Ministers decided to speed up adoption of uniform customs duties on goods from the rest of the world-indicating that the common tariff barrier, which will change present duties on most industrial and farm imports from the U.S.. will be in place by early 1967. Though it is one of the Kennedy Administration's top-priority goals to negotiate bilateral tariff cuts by that date, the recent U.S. decision to raise duties on imported woven carpets and window glass prompted the Common Market to take a step...
high and 20 ft. wide. But unlike Walter Ulbricht's hated Berlin Wall, the new barrier was not built by the Communists; it was erected by the British last week to keep hungry refugees from the Red Chinese mainland out of the dangerously overcrowded Crown colony of Hong Kong...
...might be of importance to antisubmarine warfare. With a string of 15 spar buoys-aluminum tubes weighted at one end so they floated upright with 12 ft. of their length underwater-they blocked the mouth of a Lower California lagoon. The buoys were set soft. apart, making a loose barrier across the channel; on the bottom near by, the scientists spotted two underwater microphones. Their hazard to navigation in place, the scientists retired to their research boat to wait for porpoises to swim through the channel...
...Navy's prize aircraft were on display: Phantom interceptors. Vigilante and Skyhawk attack bombers and Crusader fighters screamed overhead, booming in salute as they cracked the sonic barrier, hurling bombs neatly and precisely between the twin wakes of Enterprise and Forrestal...
Lakoff admitted that "fear of doing away with individual tutorial has been a barrier against making any changes." The resulting compromise created a "limited" program, in which the number of seminars would be kept rather small; perhaps three or four, according to Lakoff...