Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image is at once ordinary and sinister. Amid the bustle of Kasumigaseki subway station, in downtown Tokyo, three attacha cases stand unattended by the ticket barrier. Suddenly, gas begins hissing ominously out of one of them. When police eventually examine the cases, they discover that each holds containers of clear liquid, a powerful battery-operated vaporizer and a fan to blow the resulting vapor through vents. The cases are rigged to operate as automatic dispensers. But dispensers of what...
Jackie Robinson was the athlete who broke American professional sports' color barrier, and his dignity crystallized the injustice of segregation. Curt Flood's 1969 challenge of the reserve clause (under which the team reserves the sole right to negotiate with a player for the following year(s)), although ultimately unsuccessful, was a revolutionary step in the direction of player freedom...
Hackers regularly cruise the Internet looking for prey. But when they try to burrow into the CIA's secrets through its electronic link to that network, they face the ultimate barrier: the "air gap," says a senior intelligence official. For example, the CIA's "home-page" menu on the Internet offers viewers two unclassified publications: a Factbook on Intelligence and a World Factbook that gives statistics on foreign countries. But that electronic link is physically separated from the computer lines that carry the agency's secrets...
Deciding that excellence in research is notworth harassment, I switch to channel#hehe. The boys follow. Ten of them. We hita communication barrier: I want to talkabout 'netsex, they want to have it. I recallRifraff's complaint: "What woman in her right mindwould want to log onto a straight sex channel?"This is worse than a final club party...
...staff envisions a market "conspiracy" that prevents minorities from receiving their fair market share in American society. We question the existence of this "conspiracy" and the extent to which race supercedes class as an economic barrier...