Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once again ankle-deep in sea water. Though floods have plagued Venice for centuries (one was recorded in A.D. 885), lately they have been getting worse. Main reason: to permit the passage of large ships, the Italians have widened and deepened the three channels through the 38-mile-long barrier beach that protects the Venetian lagoon from the high tides of the Adriatic...
...across the canal with our main forces lined up behind on the West Bank. Which is better, to be in close contact with the enemy or on the other side of a water barrier?" Warned Gamassy...
...serving the alternate public-service work. They will be given "undesirable discharges" and must pledge to take a compensatory job, but will lose only the benefit of changing their discharge to one termed a "clemency discharge" if they fail to do so. Neither type of discharge is a legal barrier to employment in civilian jobs; both deny veterans' benefits to the holder. Few deserters are likely to find two years of enforced labor worth the distinction...
...accosted by a regal beauty down at the local unemployment office. All pretense of reality having been thus jettisoned, the beauty (Barbara Parkins) offers an unconventional proposal. Over a fancy meal, she suggests that they marry for strictly business reasons. The Immigration Department is hassling her-beauty is no barrier when the Government sees its duty-and the only way she can stay in the country is as the wife of an American citizen. The designer accepts the proposal, persuaded by the offer of a $25,000 fee and frequent flashes of cleavage from the other side of the table...
...cord-was relatively uncommon in Brazil until 1970. Since then, there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those exposed to possible infection, at least one hospital...