Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most important to Alaska's economy, the bill in effect removes a barrier to the proposed $2 billion trans-Alaska oil pipeline from the North Slope fields to the ice-free port of Valdez. The oil companies have been desperate to get on with the job; costs of waiting have been estimated at $400,000 per day. The big question now is whether the 789-mile-long pipeline can be built with sufficient safeguards to protect Alaska's environment...
This judicial scrutiny was once applied so stringently that class actions were frequently thrown out. Starting in the '50s, however, constitutional issues like desegregation and legislative reapportionment were successfully fought as class actions. Then, in 1967, the California Supreme Court swept away an important barrier to class actions on the part of consumers. A Los Angeles cab company was accused of rigging its meters to overcharge customers. In denying the charge, the company argued in part that the suit should be dismissed because it would be impossible to find and reimburse each passenger...
...some Catholic theologians who favor birth control have questioned the traditional view that "nature" requires each sexual act to be open to procreation. But, argues John Giles Milhaven of Brown University, having rejected natural law in order to permit contraception, the theologians have undermined its moral force as a barrier to nonmarital sex. Milhaven himself believes that, instead of laying down dogmatic rules, the church should use the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology, as a guide in counseling individuals with sexual conflicts. Generally, he finds far more reason to condemn adultery than premarital sex. A more cautious new moralist, Catholic University...
Under Zwick's slick direction, the actors create a five-year-old's world that knocks down any age barrier. Zwick admits that he never saw any previous performances of "Charlie Brown". He is none the worse for it. Working with only a 50-cent paper-back copy of the original text, the director and his cast have evolved a fresh product of communal effort...
...Cornell. Ed Marinaro ploughed his way to a new NCAA three-year career rushing record. The senior halfback rolled past Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens' 1867 yd. record on his second carry of the day, and he continued to ramble on past the 4,000 yd. barrier...