Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, Billy, it's hard to tell. Since Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1948, an increasing number of Blacks have made the Major Leagues. The Commissioner's Office does not keep statistics, or so they say, but the figure has to be at almost 50 percent...
Among other things, townspeople wanted a barrier around the site. In August the EPA finished a new chain link fence, topped with three strands of barbed wire and hung with warning signs. (Some days, however, its gate has stood wide open.) The source of all the trouble is a ratty compound of cinder blocks and sheet metal, pink clapboard and silver tanks. One large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits...
...they may have already hit a barrier. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III denounced the service when he learned of it yesterday, calling it a "violation of University regulation" and a "project that is irresponsible and in poor taste...
Happily, all of that furious and frantic preparation, from Edisto, S.C., to Eastport, Me., turned out to be a storm before a comparative lull. After G hour had come and gone, first on the barrier islands off North Carolina and last in upper New England, all of what the newspaper people call aftermath reports had a wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced...
...accusations are used to discredit all movements, then activism is dead. The activists' belief that they are at the top of the moral heirarchy encourages them to dismiss any other solutions to the South African problem as purely political and meaningless. This assumption of moral rectitude constructs an artificial barrier between different ways of dealing with South Africa. And it is this assumption which paralyzes the Harvard community and impedes any effort to cooperate and make a real, long-term contribution to the 22 million South African Blacks...