Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traditionally been very distant from the University, but Clark hopes to "make the river less of a barrier...
...massive gridlock that formed along woefully inadequate evacuation routes. "I sat in traffic for hours and then gave up," says Brown. She finally drove off the highway and rode out the storm, stuck with her dog in a parking lot. Many who did get off the narrow barrier islands drove for hours--some for as many as 13 hours--looking for a dry place to spend the night...
...corner, 15 big boats worth millions of dollars are stacked like toys, each a total loss. "As a small business, we're wiped out," says Burklow, who estimates his loss at $742,000. He points to huge chunks of reinforced concrete that have been ripped from a protective barrier. "That gives you an idea of what kind of force we're talking about," he says...
...This is as bad as any hurricane can get," S.C. Gwynne reports from Navarre Beach, a barrier island about 20 miles east of Pensacola in the area that bore the full force of Hurricane Opal. "There are chunks of asphalt everywhere, a car 200 yards offshore, huge tower cranes twisted like toys, upside-down semi rigs just lying in the sand. Whole buildings are either destroyed and atomized into chunks no bigger than a yard across. In one case, a house had been taken up and thrown 50 yards into the air." Some residents are now returning to the remains...
...history tells us anything, it is that lowering the barrier between church and state will lead not to some harmonious utopia, but to open strife and the oppression of minority viewpoints. This is the history that the Founders knew, and we have seen these lessons from the Crusades to modern-day Yugoslavia...