Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the marchers had gone only about 20 yards, they encountered 50 policemen with arms linked to form a human barrier...
...afforded the renewal of the local rivalry between Suhs and Boston University's Sybil Smith. Yale's Lisa O'Dell, however, threw a shadow on that showdown by smashing the EWSL record in her victory. O'Dell became the first Eastern swimmer to slide under the formidable 23 second barrier with a time...
...greatest barrier of all is Harvard's policy toward transfers. I often get the feeling that the administration believes that we really don't deserve the same respect and fair treatment as students who came here as freshmen. But because we missed the first year, the University has all the more reason to make sure we thoroughly enjoy the "Harvard experience." However, transfers are affiliated with Dudley House and placed in off-campus housing like Botanical Gardens (a.k.a. Watertown), or Peabody Terrace. Geographically and socially, we are on the dull edges of the Harvard community...
That such measures are necessary underscores the fact that not everyone welcomes the growing role of women in the armed forces. While polls show increasing popular support for women in arms and even for their participation in combat, that last barrier is not likely to fall anytime soon. Congresswoman Beverly Byron, who chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel and Compensation, strongly supports the Pentagon reforms, but she admits, "There is a chauvinistic, male repugnance to women in direct combat that I share." Lorrie Hayward, a Nebraska-born lieutenant stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany, is blunter. Says...
...blows" to put down the demonstrations, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children have been clubbed and battered by Israeli soldiers. The apparent aim was not just to punish specific troublemakers but to terrorize the population into submission. Said Shamir: "Our task now is to re-create the barrier of fear between Palestinians and the Israeli military, and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the areas so as to deter them from attacking us anymore." Until a renewed outburst of protests in the West Bank and Gaza at week's end that, according to Arab...