Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This high barrier to running does not seem to have hurt the GOP. A half-dozen Republicans have thrown their hats into the ring: Lamar Alexander, the former Tennessee governor who has been in contention almost since the moment he dropped out of the 1996 race; Steve Forbes, the billionaire who lost the GOP presidential nomination in 1996; former vice president Dan Quayle; New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith; head of the Family Research Council Gary Bauer; and Arizona Sen. John McCain. Texas Governor George W. Bush, Elizabeth Dole, Ohio Rep. John Kasich and Broadcaster Alan Keyes are all weighing runs...
...community just through willing it. Those arguing for the deliberate building of community assume or postulate that getting people together is great and preferable to fragmentation. This theory holds as long as people want to get together with each other and aren't doing it just because of a barrier like living too far across campus or fearing, or not understanding, others. I don't think this is the problem. Most students did not choose Harvard College for its marvelous social experiences. Though people here are not extra-dorky introverts, many are happy to occupy a single social space. What...
FREUDENBERG'S LIST A durable emigre breaks the language barrier...
...thought that foreigners could possibly die in a hospital here because of a language barrier haunted me," she recalls. Within a few months she had produced her first translators' list. Often consulted, it is now published on the Internet. "Thousands of people have been assisted by the list since its inception," estimates Barbara Vaughn, public information director for Charleston. Translators have helped Cuban boat people stranded in port, sick Mexican migrant workers who couldn't communicate with hospital staff, Vietnamese schoolkids who couldn't understand instructions and a Norwegian sailor who ran away from a hospital, scared that his ship...
...Reeds (mistranslated as the Red Sea) has been located at various sites all over the Middle East. A current scholarly favorite is Lake Sirbonis (now called Sabkhet el Bardowil), a Mediterranean lagoon on the northeastern shore of the Sinai separated from the sea by a narrow land barrier. Critics claim to discern several different accounts within the Bible, depending on which of four ancient versions of the story has been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down of the Egyptian chariot wheels...