Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They had wanted something up the stairs a month ago," he said. He said that the Levesque's request did not stem from the April 16 accident but would not say whether the boy's fall may have sped work to place a temporary barrier on the Quincy stairway. Coming up with a permanent solution will be the house office's decision, Christiano said...
WHILE E4D's leaders are imploring seniors to give only to E4D, I cannot help but wonder what its agents are thinking. Suffice it to say that there are many members of the E4D staff who are also soliciting for the Class Gift. They correctly see no barrier to working for or donating to both funds; they perceive the Class Gift to be an apolitical gift, not an endorsement of the endowment. They reserve their political statements for donations...
...selling huge blocks of many different stocks. According to the new guidelines, whenever the Dow is either up or down by 50 points in a single day, investment firms are no longer allowed to use the Big Board's computers to execute program trades. Last Thursday the 50-point barrier was broken for the first time on the down side, and though the new regulations were invoked, the Dow kept plummeting. Brokerage houses simply used alternative methods to carry out program trades, albeit more slowly than usual. Said Thomas Gallagher, head of institutional trading for the Oppenheimer brokerage firm...
...also attempted to convey my opinion that while the absence of large pools of minority faculty candidates does constitute a real barrier in the short-run, low pools of minorities are never an occasion for failing to undertake long-range tasks involved in increasing the pools. Long-range tasks involve recruiting increased numbers of minority graduate students, and similar measures. Nor should the absence of large pools be used to justify the absence of ad hoc attempts in the short-run to attract qualified minority faculty, perhaps by recruiting them from other institutions. From my own conversations with Dean Spence...
...year after Campanis' comments--and 41 years after Robinson broke the color barrier--baseball has made strides in that direction. Cookie Rojas, who is Cuban, is now managing the Kansas City Royals. Ueberroth's commission has encouraged Black and other minority players to take up coaching and managing positions in the minor leagues, a stepping stone to later employment in the majors...