Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marine biologists, the barrier reef that stretches 242 km (150 miles) along the coast of Belize is one of the seven underwater wonders of the world, a diver's paradise replete with about 45 kinds of coral and hundreds of species of fish. But by the mid-1980s, fishermen, shell collectors, tourists, construction and pollution were endangering the reef's fragile ecosystem. Today, thanks to a two-year-long campaign headed by Janet Patricia Gibson, 37, a Belizean botanist and zoologist, 13 sq. km (5 sq. mi.) of the reef have been set aside as the Hol Chan (Mayan...
...openly declares that following her social conscience comes before any responsibility to shareholders. But respecting the environment has proved no barrier to success. Last year Body Shop sales jumped nearly 60%, to $90 million, earning Roddick the title of Britain's Retailer of the Year...
...scale model of the Statue of Liberty evoked memories of Tiananmen Square. A mock barrier, dubbed the Wall of Colonialism, was battered down as demonstrators cheered. It might have been an anti-Soviet prop at an independence rally in Lithuania. Instead, this was in the city of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico, and the 125,000 yellow-clad marchers were not calling for the island's freedom but to join the U.S. as the 51st state...
...commonwealth is the barrier, the wall," Romero-Barcelo said. "As the Berlin Wall prevented East Germany from achieving democracy, the commonwealth is the invisible wall preventing equality...
...that barrier must tumble if Harvard is to live up to its policy of treating all students as equal and free-thinking individuals. Just as the Faculty recently expressed concern about denying Harvard students free speech rights guaranteed to the public, we all should bemoan campus living restrictions that would be considered ridiculous in the real world...