Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is averaging 5.7 goals per game and hasn't been shut out this season. Four team members--Captain Lane MacDonald, Bourbeau, junior C.J. Young and sophomore Peter Ciavaglia--have shattered the 50-point barrier, and five more forwards have scored 20-plus points...
...country club -- is for whites only. Blacks in token numbers may be tolerated. But when their numbers exceed a so-called tipping point, many whites go on the defensive. A generation ago, the color bar was rigid and well defined: no blacks allowed. Now it has become a shifting barrier that can suddenly materialize, curtly reminding blacks that no matter how successful they may be, they remain in some ways second-class citizens. As black psychiatrist James P. Comer wrote in his family memoir, Maggie's American Dream, "Being black in America is often like playing your home games...
Though their incomes, education and life-styles rival those of their white counterparts, middle-class blacks remain in some ways second-class citizens. Even with the passage of civil rights laws, a color barrier still exists where blacks live and work. Nor has their own affluence resolved ambiguous feelings about the plight of the underclass. -- For black managers the toughest challenge is learning to be the boss. See LIVING...
MacDonald has broken the 50-point barrier in all four years of his Crimson career, and is currently in second place on the Harvard all-time scoring list with 218 points...
...from 61% to 53%. The increase in home prices has far outpaced the ability of young people to save the necessary down payment. A prime reason is the price of rents, which have risen even faster than home prices in many cities. Now interest rates are rising as a barrier once again. The average 30-year mortgage rate climbed to 10.56% last week, vs. 9.84% a year ago, as the Federal Reserve tightened up credit in response to renewed signs of inflation...