Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young Crimson lineup and the shallow, slow Brown pool, the times were strong. The Crimson freshmen dominated the show with first-place finishes from Dave Bandy, Gouldson, Matthew Mckay, Ou and diver Craig Narveson. In the 200-meter butterfly, the Brown squad couldn't even crack the two-minute barrier, while Harvard's four entrants swept the first four places...
...husbands in clean shirts -- are valued in the open market at somewhere near the minimum wage. And whatever one thinks of investment banking or corporate law, the perks and the pay are way ahead of those for waitressing and data entry. So, every time a woman breaks a new barrier the rest of us tend to cheer -- even if she's running a pollution-producing company or toting a gun in some ill-considered...
...terms of raising money, women now tend todo as well as their male counterparts in similarsituations. But the power of incumbency is stillthe number one barrier to women or any newleadership," says Danowitz. "Their differentvoices aren't enough to break the shackles...
Bishops from India, Africa and particularly the newly liberated churches of Eastern Europe pointed out that their pressing problem is less the barrier of celibacy than how to house would-be priests and where to find the books and teachers to train them. "Do not make the mistake of thinking that our people in Africa do not know what celibacy is and would rather have their priests married," Bishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega of Tanzania told the synod. "They cannot imagine a Catholic priest who is married...
Although membership in exclusive clubs is by no means a barrier to political success-George Bush was a member of the Skull and Bones society in his days at Yale University--past involvement in such organizations has come under increasing public scrutiny in the past decade...