Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers played pool, got drunk and sang "You're Too Good To Be True" before they headed to Vietnam. For their part, Kaufman's astronauts make imaginary planes with their hands and provide their own sound effects. Then they risk their lives to test an aircraft, break the sound barrier or orbit the earth...
...fastest man on earth, or as Gordon Cooper phrases it, to be "the hotdog man himself." The proprietress of the restaurant on Edwards Air Force Base even promises a prize for the winner of one of their games. Says she, "The first fella that breaks the sound barrier's gonna get a free steak with all the trimmin...
...order to remove a trade barrier we might have to raise a barrier and then remove them both," he said...
Jesse Jackson's claim that Vanessa Williams did for the Miss America Pageant what Jackie Robinson did for the Brooklyn Dodgers is absurd [Oct. 3]. Williams lives in a society that has legally abolished racial segregation. That was not the case when Robinson broke baseball's "color barrier" in 1947. Also, Williams did not endure the racial insults or physical intimidation that Robinson did. The two achievements are not comparable...
...Cash-starved developing nations argue that an overvalued dollar undermines their ability to repay huge foreign debts. When world moneymen gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (see box), some financiers feared that the dollar had become a barrier to recovery around the world...