Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hottest player in America's hottest sport. Only 25, Jordan has already won every major individual award the NBA has to offer. He was Rookie of the Year after his first season. After his third, he became the first player not named Wilt to break the 3,000-point barrier. Last season he captured an unprecedented triple crown of NBA honors: Most Valuable Player, Defensive Player of the Year and top scorer to boot. This season, averaging more than 34 points a game, Jordan could be headed for his third consecutive scoring title. He has pulled the once dreadful Chicago...
...detracting from his goal to be a role model for youngsters of all races. "I try to be seen as Michael Jordan the person, not as black or white," he says. "I guess I am a pioneer, and at some time I may come up against a racial barrier, but at least I have cleared...
...fourth barrier is the lack of widespread awareness among the peoples of the world about the nature of the problem. Most political leaders, let alone their public, are unaware of what is happening and how severe it is. That must be changed...
...fifth barrier to political action is the knowledge that many of the ultimate solutions are almost unimaginably difficult. And since they are harder than anything we have done before, and the efforts may all come to naught anyway, why mess with them? Why not conserve our energy and just not even try? That is a formidable barrier, not least because the solutions require international cooperation on a scale that is totally unprecedented in history...
That is a plea the U.S. should take seriously, by easing restrictions on the export of industrial technology to the Soviets. Unfortunately, the biggest barrier to such shipments is not export controls but the lack of hard currency. The U.S. cannot finance the Soviet drive to conserve energy and control pollution, but America should offer as much technical assistance as possible. The Soviets seem to be sincerely determined to clean up their act, and the U.S. should help...