Word: barriers
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Reeves says that the civil service selectionprocess and lifetime tenure for school teachersare a "hurdle" to minority representation. "Itprefers those traditionally involved in thesystem. It is a major barrier. And it's notproducing particularly great candidates," he says...
...barrier that once separated feature films and TV has been crumbling for several years. Directors like Walter Hill (48 Hours) and Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) have done episodes for HBO's Tales from the Crypt. John Sayles (Eight Men Out) created Shannon's Deal, a lawyer series for NBC, and Spielberg ventured into series TV several years ago with his fantasy anthology Amazing Stories. Yet many filmmakers of the first rank still regard TV as a second-class medium. The chief drawbacks: less time to work, less money to spend and more restrictions on style and subject matter...
Helmut Girardelli, autocratic father and coach of Luxembourg's Marc Girardelli, entered a restricted area and insisted that a barrier on the Face de Bellevarde course be moved to allow skiers a safer turn. Furious race officials confiscated his credentials for interfering, but they moved the barrier...
They minimize the importance of the organization's decisions to break the racial barrier--drafting the first Black player and hiring the first Black coach in National Basketball Association (NBA) history--charging that the all-white management of the Celtics has always been more opportunistic than progressive in its policies on race...
Paulo C. Poletti, a young Brazilian man who has lived in Cambridge for six years, says the language barrier is not only an impediment to finding a job but a source of discrimination...