Word: barriers
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DIED. Elston Howard, 51, versatile slugger who was one of the pioneering blacks in baseball's major leagues; of cardiac arrest; in New York City. In 1955, eight years after Jackie Robinson breached the game's color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Howard became the first black to play with the New York Yankees. After 13 seasons with the Yanks and one with the Boston Red Sox, he returned to Yankee Stadium as the American League's first black coach...
...over the country. Stanford University has announced that, come fall, the cost of tuition, fees, room and board for a single year will rise 13.3%, from $8,921 to $10,105. It is a safe-if painful-bet that tuition, room and board will crash the five-figure barrier at a handful of other schools, since Stanford typically charges less than Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. At Harvard, Associate Dean for Finances Melissa D. Gerrity forecasts an increase of 11% to 15% above the present $9,170, and a total that could go as high as $10,546. Matters are bound...
Conflicts over emission standards have been a long-time barrier to relations between the EPA and the automotive industry. Powers said that both interests can now stop "shooting at each other...
...tempted conquerors: Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and scores of others preceded last year's Soviet invaders into Afghanistan. But the tribesmen there have proved to be as resistant as their terrain-from the desert of Nimruz, where men were once condemned to death for stealing water, to the formidable barrier of the Hindu Kush, which forms the dividing line between Southern and Central Asia. Roland Michaud, a French photographer, and his wife Sabrina spent 14 years in Afghanistan (through 1979). In Afghanistan (Vendome; unpaginated; $45), they have memorably recorded the country's ancient life: the dervishes, the bazaars...
Sullivan told about 70 at a Center for International Affairs seminar Wednesday that Soviet KGB operations have been proceeding in three areas of Iran in an effort to "reduce Iran's effectiveness as a barrier to "Soviet mischief" and to Soviet intentions on the Persian Gulf...