Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior destroyed the school record in that event on the strength of her long jump. She is also the first Harvard woman to break the elusive 3500 point barrier...
...still burdened with a large amount of debt and faces big capital outlays for new equipment. The U.S. has the oldest fleet in the developed world. Nor is the threat from discount carriers over. Although the ValuJet crash took with it the public's confidence in upstart airlines, the barrier to entry is still relatively low. Capital, pilots, planes and entire outsourced airline service industries are readily available...
While Walfish says he noticed less of a barrier between his students and him, he says that such a situation was not necessarily negative...
Ennis Cosby's demise is a shocking violation, not only of basic notions of personal safety (changing a tire shouldn't be a death sentence, especially not in palmy suburbia) but of a modern metaphysical barrier as well. Bonds and affections nurtured by a TV show season after season for years should not be vulnerable to sudden disruption from outside the screen. I have plenty of friends who grew up with single parents--or double parents who didn't much like each other--for whom Bill Cosby's intact, warm TV household was a crucial refuge. Now it's gone...
...know what is in it, applies to commercially-raised beef. In an attempt to protect American consumers against Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it is preparing to ban the use of animal parts in livestock feed. The measure is intended to erect a barrier which will help prevent any possible transmission of the illness from the feeding trough to the dinner table. "If we don't take preventive action today, we may regret it three to four years down the road," explained FDA Commissioner David Kessler. "By saying that cattle and sheep cannot...