Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America the great moral barrier protecting us from such monstrous God-doctoring is the one separating passive from active euthanasia. Pulling the plug for the dying is permitted. Prescribing death-dealing drugs to those who are quite self-sustaining is not. It is this distinction that the judges are intent on destroying...
...more. These judges have now liberated us from the hypocrisy of the unenforced law. Damn them. Lack of enforcement is an expression of compassion, but the law is the last barrier to arrogance. And God knows that in this age of all-powerful medicine, arrogance is the greater danger. Every grandparent will soon know that...
...honor," he said. "I am ready to challenge the Kenyans." And he did, for four circuits of the five loop, 12.1-km course, running in a leading group of five that included three Kenyans. But at the start of the final loop he caught a spike on a log barrier and stumbled into the man beside him, defending champion Paul Tergat of Kenya. Tergat recovered and accelerated into the lead, but Gebrselassie seemedto lose heart, trotting home fifth, 44 sec. behnd Tergat...
Blacks managing to crack the housing market's color barrier are quickly greeted with white flight. A mass exodus from an area begins once it becomes over 20 percent black-occupied, according to University of Michigan Professor Reginald Farley. "The presence of even small numbers of black residents is disturbing to a significant fraction of whites," he writes...
...conversion is the true struggle: though outwardly courteous, he holds on to his resentment and his hatred to the very end. An undercurrent of tension therefore remains up to the day of Earl's departure, when Aunt T. shares a secret with them both that dissolves the final barrier between them and binds them together for good...