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CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES New York Post MANY Americans believe that this is a country of immigrants. It is. They also believe that the story of immigrants succeeding."> (www.nypost.com....717168.htm)
Although that is true, it&s only part of the picture. Most immigrants have faced huge obstacles . Yes, immigrants& muscle and intelligence have built this country, but each group of immigrants has had to deal with issues of class, economics, and ethnicity, and the people haven&t always been welcome. That continues today (www.nypost.com....717168.htm)
Many difficulties can keep a writer from writing, including writer's block, a lack of time, rejection, and the frustration of revision. There are practical things a writer can do at any stage of his or her career to keep writing despite the obstacles (fictionwriting.about.com....riting.htm)
Survey the area that you will be driving in and make sure it is clear of undesired obstacles . i.e. stumps, large rocks, puddles of water, or other obstructions (rcvehicles.about.com....tacles.htm)
While some RCs are capable of handling rough terrain, these are scale vehicles - a pile of rocks is like a mountain to these cars, a water puddle is a lake. Encountering unexpected obstacles can cause damage by stopping your RC in its tracks, flipping it, cracking the body , or subjecting the suspension or other parts to excess strain (rcvehicles.about.com....tacles.htm)
This post deals with the bureaucratic obstacles that will delay The Energy Revolution . More importantly these delays will no doubt increase the economic cost of the revolution and heighten the reduction of standard of living that will occur while we are undergoing this process. Under existing procedures it could easily take 10-15 years to build a major energy facility. To transition through the revolution it will required to build thousands of such facilities. Other countries could build such facilities in much less time, with far less bureaucratic obstacles and less concern for impact on the environment. This would result in further requirements for costly imports, rather than us becoming an exporter of products for which we have abundant natural resources (thefraserdomain.typepad.com....to_th.html)
Not-in-my-back-yard (NIMBY) and build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything (BANANA) attitudes have become standard obstacles for any large construction project. The siting process for such projects is a nightmare to builders because the opponents, who certainly have the right to be heard, can drag out this process almost indefinitely. Hirsch uses the example of the permitting process for small distributed energy systems requiring 18 steps, requiring approval from four federal agencies, 11 state government agencies and 11 local government agencies. For the U.S. to attain a lower level of dependence on liquid fuel imports after the advent of world oil peaking, a major paradigm shift will be required in the current approach to the construction of capital-intensive energy facilities. Federal and state governments will have to adopt legislation allowing the acceleration of the development of substitute fuel projects from the current decade time-scales. (thefraserdomain.typepad.com....to_th.html)
Australian newspaper The Age reports that EOWA, the Government's equal opportunity agency, has published figures showing that women hold just 8.8 per cent of executive management positions. This compares to 15.7% in the US. Some of the obstacles cited in the EOWA report include women not getting "the kind of across-the-board, money-making experience necessary for promotion", stereotyped attitudes from male colleagues, and limited child-care availability (management.about.com....-in-us.htm)
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