Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leading the charge, as has been the case of late, was senior Mike Kiedel. Kiedel cruised to a three second victory in the 200 free and crushed the field in the 400 free, winning by six-plus seconds and being the only competitor to break the four-minute barrier...
...road, and see the set of his jaw and the squint of his eye. This is not some corporate paper pusher at the wheel; this is no sensitive dad who does the laundry. This is Patton leading the Third Army. This is Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Disrupt his fantasy at your peril. "There is a real illusion of anonymity combined with potency because you have a machine you can command," says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University's Program for the Study of Violence. "Top it off with the stress of work and people perhaps feeling insecure...
This is nothing new to the Crimson, however, who had no problem breaking through the Union barrier last season as it took both contests, outscoring the Skating Dutchmen 7-2 in the process...
...majority of the Chinese graduate students made their first trip abroad when they came to Harvard and, despite the instigation of mandatory English classes in the late 1970s, have struggled with the language barrier...
Home PCs began to break the $1,000 barrier in large numbers. The ego of Gary Kasparov (and the self-confidence of humanity) plummeted at the hands of IBM's chess monster Big Blue...