The effect has been to remove the barrier to shareholder suits, according to Paul Sheard, a strategist at Baring Asset Management.

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Bing has kicked in fees for the first 100 applicants in hopes that it will remove the barrier for entry and encourage more female entrepreneurs to apply.

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The first barrier to remove is the interminable wait for DOE export licenses.

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The legislation would remove what had been seen as a barrier for drillers wanting to use coal mine water: the state's Clean Streams Law.

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The concept of Google Glass seems to remove this barrier between living life and capturing it.

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To remove this capability barrier, Jean Claude spent time with the leaders of existing CAFs to slim down the methodology to just a few critical steps.

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And the unification of consumer lenders' jealously guarded proprietorial credit databases into a national whole would remove an important barrier to entry.

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