Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double chainlink, electrified fence topped with barbed wire; a hundred rifle-toting U.S. Marines; a few score heavily armed Israeli and Egyptian agents. This security barrier encircling Camp David last week effectively shut out a world intently curious and concerned about what was happening within the secluded presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. There at the summit, Jimmy Carter, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin were starting the latest and one of the most momentous rounds in the three-decade search for an Arab-Israeli peace. Said a somber Carter just before departing...
Epps said the North Carolina appeals court decision was not the only barrier to recognition of the assembly. "We would not entirely base our decision on [that] decision," Epps said. "There might be other alternatives we would want to use without facing the issue of legality... Bakke does seem to say something to us about quotas, and it seems to be prohibitive...
...could the animals communicate directly on the console without human participation? To find out, the scientists separated the chimps by a transparent barrier with a small opening in it. Only one chimp was given food, but the other chimp could see the varied delicacies. Spontaneously, without any prodding by the investigators, he would punch out his request and, more often than not, his buddy would comply. At first Sherman, older and apparently more quick-witted, seemed to make "errors." When asked to share an especially tasty item-say, chocolate-he occasionally ignored the request, seemed to feign ignorance or proffered...
...million-plus books include Erich Segal's Oliver's Story ($1,410,000), E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime ($1,850,000), Dorothy Uhnak's The Investigation ($1,595,000), William Safire's Full Disclosure ($1,375,000) and McCullough's phenomenal The Thorn Birds, which nearly broke the $2 million barrier...
Veterans and neophytes alike need to be tough because they must face "the ground barrier." The ordeal begins when the passenger tries to telephone the reservations center. Either the line is busy or a recorded voice says reassuringly, "Your call is being automatically held..." And held and held. Waits of up to ten minutes are common and some are as much as 35 minutes. The volume of calls is up about 35% at most airlines, and each call lasts longer while the clerk figures out the lowest fare and plots the routes over which it is applied. One Eastern reservations...