Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conflicts over emission standards have been a long-time barrier to relations between the EPA and the automotive industry. Powers said that both interests can now stop "shooting at each other...
...tempted conquerors: Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and scores of others preceded last year's Soviet invaders into Afghanistan. But the tribesmen there have proved to be as resistant as their terrain-from the desert of Nimruz, where men were once condemned to death for stealing water, to the formidable barrier of the Hindu Kush, which forms the dividing line between Southern and Central Asia. Roland Michaud, a French photographer, and his wife Sabrina spent 14 years in Afghanistan (through 1979). In Afghanistan (Vendome; unpaginated; $45), they have memorably recorded the country's ancient life: the dervishes, the bazaars...
...same financial officials snuffed out that hope this week when they announced that tuition for 1981-82 will most likely include a 10-to 15-per-cent increase over this year's $9170 figure, far surpassing the $10,000 barrier...
Sullivan told about 70 at a Center for International Affairs seminar Wednesday that Soviet KGB operations have been proceeding in three areas of Iran in an effort to "reduce Iran's effectiveness as a barrier to "Soviet mischief" and to Soviet intentions on the Persian Gulf...
Four-digit fever has swept Wall Street periodically since Dec. 31, 1976, when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...