Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the field to keep cars off the grass. Garner says this is "technically a temporary change which just keeps the cars off the field." He adds that the Planning Office has not yet drawn up a permanent plan, which might involve sinking curbstones or a similar type of barrier to keep cars off the grass...
...important contemporary source of nationalism is the provincial civil service. Created rapidly during the Quiet Revolution, it has channelled the empire-building impulse common to most bureaucracies in a nation-building direction. Because of the language barrier separating French civil servants from the English corporate world, Quebec's bureaucrats are less immediately sensitive to conservative business influence than are most other bureaucracies. The consequence of rapidly creating a nationalist and non-business oriented civil service is that the bureaucracy itself is a powerful motor force for Quebec's independence...
...kidnaping, parliament enacted a "contact ban," permitting courts to cut off terrorist prisoners from all outside communication-including their lawyers under certain circumstances. Last week the Bundestag passed new antiterror rules that would further restrict the rights of defendants and their attorneys. Among them: placing a physical barrier between a lawyer and his client during consultations to prevent weapons smuggling and permitting the court to monitor the mail between lawyer and client when criminal activity is suspected...
...scientists overwhelmingly reject the possibility, saying that the major barrier--inducing an egg fertilized with an implanted body cell nucleus to develop--could not yet be overcome. They say that since a frog was successfully cloned in the early '60s, researchers have been unable to clone a mouse, let alone a man. Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical School, voices a common objection to Rorvik's claim: "I'm sort of surprise that the barriers could have been overcome so quickly and without hearing about...
...central bank interest rate to 3.5%, the lowest since 1946. Those measures failed to keep dollars from pouring into Japan, so the Bank of Japan bought up $500 million of greenbacks offered for sale. That did not prop the price, and at one point the dollar broke the 230-barrier on some exchanges...