Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tension is apparent as he works the truck back into the parallel parking space, only a couple of feet longer than the truck. The crowd for the first time has something to watch, and starts to focus attention on his misery. He hits a barrier, and another, but finally coaxes his truck between the barricades and goes on to the next problem...
...women hostages and two of the convicts. Moving out of the library and toward the waiting vehicle, the convicts forced eight of the hostages to form a shield around them. They taped law books to portable blackboards as a secondary line of protection. With them inside that barrier were four other hostages, including the two women...
...make life increasingly uncomfortable for officials on all levels of government, indeed for all Frenchmen, and little is being done to stop them. In the Limoges area last week, for example, peasants parked their tractors across a well-traveled tourist road; when motorists tried to turn back from the barrier, they found themselves trapped by more tractors in the opposite direction...
...year agreement that would set ambitious goals for U.S.-Soviet trade through 1984. One barrier to increased trade has been the Jackson amendment, which for the past year has kept the Administration from granting the U.S.S.R. the trade concessions of most-favored-nation status until Russia allows free emigration from its borders. The amendment is designed mostly to help Jews who want to go to Israel, and Senator Henry Jackson appears willing now to compromise with the Administration if Nixon can get a promise from Brezhnev that more Jews-about 35,000 emigrated last year-will be allowed...
...MRCA fighter-bomber interceptor gets off the ground nicely this week, it may also take some business from U.S. companies. The swing-wing, twin-engine plane can break the sound barrier at near treetop level (752 m.p.h. at sea level), then soar high into the stratosphere at more than 1,350 m.p.h. -and do all this while carrying an unusually heavy weapons payload. The plane is specifically designed to replace aging U.S. aircraft in the West German Luftwaffe and navy, the Royal Air Force and the Italian air force...