Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning, the diminutive figure in fur hat and baggy clothing emerged from behind two vans parked at the middle of the bridge. "No Wall!" Shcharansky shouted to bystanders with a smile as he strode across the 4-in.-wide line at the center of the span that marks the barrier between East and West. Then he asked, "When will I see my wife?" Replied one of the Americans: "If all goes well, you'll have a pleasant surprise in Frankfurt...
There was, at the apex of detente during Gerald Ford's Administration, a brief hope that space could become a bridge rather than a barrier between the superpowers. In 1975 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft linked in a display of heavenly symbolism. But such episodes proved to be merely minor exceptions to the rule that space was inevitably where the superpowers would extend their rivalry...
...value of their most important product. The war, caused by a surplus of some 2 million bbl. of crude oil a day flooding onto world markets, showed no signs of abating last week. The spot price of oil, which two weeks ago fell through the $20-per-bbl. barrier for the first time in seven years, closed last week at about...
Veritones Vice President Inger C. Dewey '89 stresses the importance of getting people with optimism, confidence, and performing ability, as well as musical talent. "We're a wholly new group; we need people who will break that barrier of nervousness and just go out there and give it their...
Freshman Jim Barton, the Green's leading scorer with 20 points on the night, sunk a shot from 16 feet to narrow Harvard's lead to one, 55-54, but the visitors never broke through the elusive 55-point barrier...