Word: barriers
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Unlike the organizations which guide undergraduates in their community volunteer work, there is no structured way for faculty and/or corporate Harvard to interact with the city. While there is no barrier to involvement, there is also no formal process by which faculty can discover whether their teaching and research needs might be satisfied by working in Cambridge...
...Soviet bureaucracy has not been the only barrier to progress. Soviet officials complain that the incessant squabbling within American negotiating teams between moderates and hard-liners makes progress glacially slow. At recent bargaining sessions, says one well-placed U.S.S.R. official, the tensions and disagreements on the American side were "if not right out in the open, then very easy for us to detect." Some of Reagan's advisers are dissatisfied too, and had begun to discuss opening some sort of "back channel" to Moscow before Gorbachev in effect proposed the ultimate back channel, one running through the top leaders...
...Says Geoff Crowley, a senior vice president of Presidential Airways, a year-old low-fare carrier based in Washington: "We wouldn't be able to get started now. Wall Street is casting too questioning an eye on new airlines." David Hinson, chairman of Chicago-based Midway Airlines, cites another barrier. Says he: "All the infrastructure, like airport gates, has been consumed by the big boys...
Indeed, it was highly unusual for someone likeJohn to attend university--his family had nouniversity connections, and they were middle-classrather than gentry, a barrier that was usuallyinsurmountable at the time...
...that the dangers are so small that "the vast majority of users will experience only the benefits." But many women are wary. The most popular birth control is now sterilization. One-third of sexually active women are either sterilized or have partners who are. Another choice is the sperm barrier, especially the condom. Its sales have increased dramatically, mainly because of the fear of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly AIDS and herpes. No longer hidden behind drugstore counters, condoms are openly displayed on self-service racks. The customers have changed too. Today women buy at least a third of all condoms...