Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These accusations are not totally warranted--all a pre-med is, after all, is just someone who wants to help others later in life. The fact that people often have a negative perception of this (mostly) innocent class of students is but additional evidence for the rigidity of the barrier between, for example, Physics and Philosophy (subjects which, in fact, are quite close to each other in a more than purely alphabetical sense...
Ironically, the biggest barrier to making such care available is the perception that efforts to treat addiction are wasted. Yet treatment for drug abuse has a failure rate no different from that for other chronic diseases. Close to half of recovering addicts fail to maintain complete abstinence after a year--about the same proportion of patients with diabetes and hypertension who fail to comply with their diet, exercise and medication regimens. What doctors who treat drug abuse should strive for, says Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is not necessarily a cure but long-term care...
Dunkle said the language barrier will help ease the tension when he presents his speech on commencement...
...kind of neat to break the four-hour barrier," Hughes said...
...degree, the extent of the national progress toward equality and racial harmony can be measured through the lens of pro sports. For example, the prevalence of black athletes in football, baseball and basketball--as well as the paucity of black coaches and executives in these sports--reflects an enduring barrier that blocks minorities from securing positions of power in many facets of American society...