Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another barrier to Harvard's selling beer and wine is also falling, Kenneth W. Robbins, a research director for the State legislature, said Tuesday. A bill that would permit universities to sell alcoholic beverages to persons 18 or older--a detail left out of the original law changing the drinking age--is waiting for Governor Francis Sargent's signature...
...months ago. Far more frightening to brokers, there are growing indications that a sizable slice of the public has been turned off stock investments. The latest New York Stock Exchange survey shows that in 1972-the very year in which the Dow Jones average finally cracked the magic 1000 barrier the number of individuals who own stock dropped by 800,000, to 31.7 million. The decline was the first since the Big Board began its surveys...
Thomas S. Marvel, a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, added that the attitudes of people are a barrier to the implementation of technological solutions. "It's hard to get people to give up a technology that's familiar to them," he said...
...which is littered with the hulks of Japanese warships sunk in World War II. Other groups will visit the headwaters of the Amazon, the Ruwenzori (Mountains of the Moon) Range between Uganda and the Republic of Zaire, the New Zealand and New Guinea highlands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef...
Indiana, with four incredible swims, won the evening final going away in new American and NCAA record time of 6:36.390, erasing the old mark of 6:38.635 set by Southern California last year. All four Hoosiers broke the 1:40 barrier led by Kinsella's opening 1:39.65, Connolly's second in a time of 1:39.99, Tyler's excellent 1:38.05, and Hall's anchoring 1:38.70 clocking...