Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because water from rain and snow cannot from down through the soul. It accumulates on the surface and then flows into the Q-RAC over a special moisture barrier designed to prevent water from permeating the wall...
Later that evening, a second submarine was detected trying to nose into the bay, apparently seeking to aid its imprisoned comrade. The new arrival later gave up and backed away from the barrier netting. At about the same tune, Swedish officials exploded three mines by remote control after detecting a sub passing outside the bay. Again, nothing was found...
...earlier films (Barrier, Hands Up, The Shout), Skolimowski has sometimes been too ready to sacrifice social feeling for a quicksilver cinematic intelligence. Moonlighting has its share of incongruous images (a flowerpot Nowak discovers in a toilet bowl) and gorgeous ones (a sweetly comic Degas overtone as one of the laborers reposes in a bathtub), but every shot is there to serve, heighten, reveal. The mundane and the surreal are one: Nowak sees images of his beloved, perhaps unfaithful wife Anna in a store window, on TV, naked in a cellar apartment. She is the vision-memory of all the hopes...
Meanwhile, the trend toward less selectivity across-the-board in college admissions has cut down on the phobia that low scores present an insurmountable barrier to getting into college. The latest stats show that almost three-fourths of all applications to American four-year colleges are now accepted. In other words, educators' attention to substance over scores has started to chip away at the tendency to take the numbers too seriously...
...number of students complained last spring that the new council's constitution had been ratified almost by accident; with two-thirds approval and a 50 percent turnout needed for ratification, the constitution only passed the second barrier because "no" voters had pushed the turn-out level past the halfway mark. These opponents bemoaned that if they had all abstained instead, the government would have failed...