Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price of it. We have a relatively inactive new construction market, in spite of intense demand. Part of the reason for this is that Cambridge is already a densely developed city, Scarcity and cost of land on which to expand the supply of housing is a constant barrier. We have families forced to leave Cambridge, or to tolerate poor housing conditions at continually increasing rents, because they have no other choice. I purpose tonight to face the housing crisis and a pledge to do everything I can as the City Manager to solve...
...past, a barrier to using renewal tools has been the justifiable suspicion on the part of the community of urban renewal being used "on" them. If we are to take advantage of renewal, we must wipe out these suspicions. I therefore recommend that the council adopt as a matter of public policy a procedure which will allow the approval of residential renewal projects only after a policy committee, composed solely of residents of the project areas, with full veto powers over the plans, approves those plans. It is in this manner, and only in this manner that we can establish...
...Finny Barrier. Scientists now foresee exciting possibilities in the control of fish by sonic commands. They might, for example, be used to lure dangerous fish away from swimming areas or from divers in the sea. There are even potential military applications. By broadcasting intermittently at a popular shark frequency, a sound projector could provide a moored ship with an effective finny barrier against enemy frogmen...
...broad jump, Harvard's Skip Hare qualified for the NCAA championships this summer by jumping 24 ft. 3 in., good for a second place finish in the meet. Both he and teammate Bob Galliers had passed the 24-foot barrier earlier in the spring, but Galliers failed to place in the event this weekend...
...from Paris circles New York International Airport, passengers look down to see a grid of runways six miles long floating in the open Atlantic 35 miles seaward of Sandy Hook. Wind speed at sea level is 40 m.p.h. and the swells are 6 ft. high, but inside a protective barrier of huge plastic bags the water surrounding the airport is calm. An immense pipe, dropping into the ocean from one end of the airport, is actually a pneumatic subway tube carrying passengers and freight to shore...