Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nerds say that anti-intellectuals like Olson are stunting the improvement of American education. The prevalence of Olson's attitudes in schoolyards across the country, they say, is a considerable social barrier. It's so much easier for a 10-year-old to reject nerdy virtues than to suffer humiliation...
...happy coincidence, the Winners saw a college education become a more prohibitive class barrier at exactly the same time that it became a near requisite for economic success...
...traditional male domination of serious restaurant cooking, an innovative crew of distaff chefs -- among them the pioneering Alice Waters of Berkeley's Chez Panisse, Anne Rosenzweig of Manhattan's Arcadia and Susan Spicer of New Orleans' the Bistro at Maison de Ville -- proved that wearing skirts was no barrier to donning toques...