Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Senate, where smaller states have a bigger voice, is unlikely to accept a constitutional amendment to abolish the college. The House, where big-state Representatives loom large, is unlikely to accept the proportional or district system. An equally formidable barrier is that a leading exponent of conserving the electoral system is the man who benefited most from it this year. Said Jack Kennedy in 1956, as he led the Senate fight against a proposal to reform or abolish the electoral college: "[The proposal] would be a breach of the agreement made with the states when they came into the Union...
...week took a look at the President-elect of the U.S. and decided that it was not dismayed by what it saw. Building on a strong tone the week before election, it bounded upward when Kennedy's election was assured. In heavy turnover, stocks broke through the 600 barrier on the Dow-Jones industrial average, ran up a 12.54 gain for the week (to 608.61) in one of the year's best rallies...
...dome; it will incorporate new advances in design to produce more steam, thus increasing capacity. By 1964, when the second fuel core has been phased in, the reactor's generating capacity will reach about 60,000 kw. When it does, the plant is expected to break the cost barrier, become the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity as cheaply as conventional plants in the same region. Says P.G. & E.'s President Norman Sutherland, 62: "I think the breakthrough into the era of the economical use of atomic power is here...
...each visit on arrival at the laboratory--no matter how late they might be for the appointment. This follows the theory of "immediate reinforcement" developed by B.F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology. After a few sessions the youths began attending regularly and the researchers had passed the first barrier: they had overcome to a degree the "no-work ethic" of the group and instilled a congnizance of time. The "identification" resulting from continued association could then take place. The boys became gradually accustomed to regular, though part-time, employment...
...Lower East Side. Some The 40,000 of Bronx the hispanos are Protestants, about 500,000 Catholics most of the remainder are unchurched. Billy was delighted at the turn out, despite competition from a World Series and a Nixon-Kennedy TV debate. As usual, language was anything but a barrier to Billy-talking through an interpreter, he suggests, gives a his English-speaking hearers more of a chance to think. With the Rev. Rogelio Archilla of Manhattans Dewitt Reformed Church panting through a skilfull rapid-fire translation on the opposite side of the platform. Evangelist Graham kept the pace fast...