Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accusations flew, only the French openly blamed GATT and the free trading systems for the world's current economic ills. With his nation stirring controversy in Europe over an ingenious new barrier against Japanese video recorders (see box), acerbic French Trade Minister Michel Jobert lambasted U.S. free trade principles as a "formula of dogmatic liberalism" yielding "subtle" forms of protectionism, and argued that in any case high interest rates and currency fluctuations, not trade barriers, caused joblessness...
This sentiment is perhaps no more beneficial to global trade then a failure to reach an agreement at all. The Kennedy and Tokyo Rounds succeeded because they outlined specific reductions of tariffs on goods and set percentage guidelines for overall trade barrier reductions. Only through such concrete requirements can GATT, which has no mechanism to enforce trade pacts, insure that individual nations support free trade...
Getting to classes can present another barrier. Since the shuttle buses are not accessible, the transition plan dictated the implementation of an accessible van to transport students to locations on campus. The van is operating, and last year severe overcrowding problems were alleviated by adding a second van. However, because of the way it's managed, the van only performs a minimal service. One third of the time the van either does not show up at all or arrives so late that the appointment or class has been missed. This can happen when clerks make the reservations incorrectly or schedule...
...called "the disabled," assigning them a secondary role outside society. Behind their praise for "courage" and "achievements" is the message that when we do break into mainstream society we are only there because of some superior personal qualities, not because that is our rightful place as human beings. Attitudinal barriers often stem from discomfort and fear, and create a barrier for which there is no ready solution. Underneath them is a wish to avoid contact with people with disabilities, perhaps out of fear of confronting one's own mortality, as some people posit, of "there but for fortune...
Regan's outdoor specialty or his "bread and butter race," is the steeplechase--a grueling 3000-meter event which includes a water barrier and hurdles in every lap Regan, who has run the race in nine minutes, 12 seconds, anticipates lowering that personal best to 8 50 sometimes spring...