Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scientists call it trifoliate orange. Barrier Concepts Inc. uses the brand name Living Fence. Most appropriate, perhaps, is its more common nickname "P.T.," which stands for "pain and terror...
...sharp thorns that make the bushes nearly impossible to climb over and are strong enough to stop a speeding jeep. P.T. plants grow naturally in the hills of East Tennessee, sometimes reaching a height of 20 ft., and have long been used by local farmers to protect livestock. Now Barrier Concepts, an Oak Ridge, Tenn., firm, is selling the bushes to such security-minded customers as the CIA, the Secret Service and the military. The Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, N.C., bought 32,000 of the bushes to encircle ammunition depots, fuel bunkers and runways. "You'd need...
Many analysts expect the Nikkei index to break the 30,000-yen barrier sometime this year. Says Hideo Nakazawa, general manager of Nomura's equity department: "We may hit some bumps, but the direction is up." Yet even Tokyo is unlikely to disprove the adage so often cited by bears in markets the world over: "No tree grows...
...however, the result was less clear cut. Four Justices -- Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall and Stevens -- ruled that the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids capital punishment for any offenders who committed their crimes before reaching 16. Three others -- Rehnquist, Scalia and White -- said the Constitution posed no such barrier. Justice Kennedy did not participate...
...would suspect in the last five years that the candidates are being judged for administrative positions purely on their merits," says Huidekoper. "Ten years ago women had more of a barrier than they...