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...many managers, male as well as female, say that an invisible line often seems to block qualified women from joining top management. Says Thomas Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence: "The number of women in executive positions today is truly revolutionary, but there is still an incredible barrier to women who want the few best jobs." He says that it will be far easier for a woman to become President of the U.S. than to head one of the "male bastions" in corporate America...
...member mock terrorist team to test the plants regularly, The NRC and industry representatives argued against such a federalized force on the ground that the close cooperation between plant operators and guards would be lost if federal employees were protecting the plants. "That would actually create almost a barrier between security and safety," Diaz tells TIME...
...Einkauf says that split tickets are a barrier to efficiency, and that Glazer and Nichols “were handicapped by the student body which elected them...
...that as the fatality rate dropped in northern Vietnam, there has been an increase in the number of cases clustered close together and in the age of those infected?signs that the virus may be finding more efficient ways to infect people, including human-to-human transmission, the principal barrier to a pandemic. The falling death rate could mean that this process of adaptation is accelerating. "In gaining the ability to go from one person to another, a virus may well lose its virulence," says Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital...
...Anthropologists say male status is typically tied to money and power, which explains why the standard male midlife crisis is triggered by a career crack-up. Women's turmoil often reflects events in their personal lives as well as the accumulated stress of years of ladder climbing, multitasking and barrier breaking. Nearly three-quarters of women from 40 to 54 in a Yankelovich Monitor study said life is "much too complicated...