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...greater barrier to a combat role for women is public sensitivity to possible female casualties. Yet the military knows the combat exclusion is artificial protection. "The critical point," Army spokeswoman Paige Eversole said last week, "is that these women were trained for whatever contingency they encountered. They could and did fire their weapons where necessary. In war," she added, "we expect women to be casualties in direct proportion to the numbers in which they serve...
...their politico-economic systems, may have something to do with their poor performance. SONG is by no means arguing that there is only one factor that is responsible for technological progress. SONG's credo is simply that at this time in our history, American anti-intellectualism is a barrier to the advancement of our society in general and to educational reform in particular...
...result, the bill would have placed a severe barrier to Harvard's immediate plans for the two sites. But neither structure can be adequately described as an SRO housing unit, Casey says...
...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...