Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BRING BACK THE SENSE OF SHAME. RESTORE IT TO A place of honor. Give it the nicest office in the brain. It is not only social conservatives who urge it. By now, almost everyone agrees that shame is socially indispensable--the individual's internal police department. Without a barrier of protective shame, the raw sewage of the country's id (pornography, crime, a general violent rottenness and social stupidity) seeps upward, into the ego and superego. A kind of moral imbecility smells up the public places. Life in America begins to look like a long afternoon of shameless, aberration...
What are the chances of contracting the AIDS virus in the ring? Pretty remote, according to most researchers. The skin is an excellent barrier against all kinds of microbes, not just HIV. And even if two opposing boxers suffer cuts at the same time, that doesn't mean transmission is inevitable. Cuts bleed out, making it difficult for the other person's blood to seep in. Furthermore, healthy athletes don't usually have that much HIV in their blood anyway; in the first decade of infection, most of the virus is trapped in the lymph nodes...
...team, that has clocked the second fastest time (3:51) going into Heps. Senior captain Amanda Williams, who was last year's 400 meter champion, is favored again in this event. And senior Karen Goetze is running strong in the 800 meters coming close to breaking the 2:12 barrier this season with a best...
...Liberties Union immediately filed suit over a provision banning "indecent" material from electronic networks, saying the measure abridges free speech. Many popular Internet sites also turned their backgrounds black in protest. While the smut provision has captured many of the headlines, several other important measures also became law. The barrier between long-distance and local providers is now gone. AT&T announced moments after the bill was signed that it will enter local telephone markets by this summer, while local phone giant GTE said it will team up with the nation's fourth-largest long-distance provider to market services...
...went into the meet hoping to get the NCAA qualifying mark of 8:01.5, and also I wanted to break the eight-minute barrier," Carswell said of the 3000 meters...