Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occupied city and were later included in what is now East Berlin, even though they protruded like a battered thumb into central West Berlin. In 1961, when the Communists built the Wall to close off their portion of the divided city, they did not bother to extend the barrier around the perimeter of the barren site. Instead, they simply sealed it off from the rest of East Berlin with their "death strip...
...pole vault is technically the most difficult event in track and field; this year's Olympic contest may be the best ever. The 18-ft. barrier, narrowly broken in 1970 by Greek Chris Papanicolaou, was not disturbed again until last April, when Sweden's diminutive Kjell Isaksson soared 18 ft. 1 in. Since then the barrier has really been buffeted-including twice more by Isaksson and twice by Bob Seagren of the U.S. (TIME, June 19), a fledgling actor who hopes for a movie career. Seagren has cleared a world record height...
...Party, who have long suspected Schiller of being too probusiness in his thinking. More important, he clashed with Brandt on the question of monetary policy; when other European countries began imposing financial controls to halt the inflow of unwanted, inflation-breeding dollars, Schiller refused to erect any sort of barrier against the free flow of capital into West Germany. Two weeks ago, at a showdown Cabinet session, Brandt sided with German Central Bank President Karl Klasen, who proposed a set of mild-and so far ineffectual-controls on capital movement. These were immediately enacted over Schiller's protest...
...Boston's Jordan Marsh department store in 1948, Polaroid has marketed some 26 million of them; today it sells more cameras in the $50-and-over class than all other companies in the world combined. However, sales really began to take off when the company broke the cost barrier on earlier models and produced Polaroids that retailed at discount for as little as $ 15. Since 1961, revenues have risen by 400%, to last year's $504 million, making Polaroid one of the fastest growing companies of modern times...
...managers. Financial and marketing officers are most in demand. Salaries are up too; some companies will pay 10% or 15% more to fill a slot than they would have a year ago. They have more top jobs than middle-management openings to fill, and age is a barrier only to those in the middle ranks. One major Manhattan recruiter notes that a 63-year-old executive who earns $200,000 a year has an easier time switching jobs than a middle-manager in his 50s who makes $ 15,000. The Boyden agency is searching for 18 presidents v. a "normal...