1.   As the old legal barriers fell, many investment firms became more like banks.

2.   An ethnic barrier fell in the Balkans Friday.

3.   As international trade barriers fall, Americans are increasingly going abroad to do business, often in crime-ridden developing countries where personal safety is an everyday concern.

4.   After the barriers fell, Miss Greenfield was a frequent guest at Gridiron dinners, attending the most recent one earlier this year.

5.   But those barriers could fall over time with the increase of high-speed Internet cable and DSL services and digital satellite services.

6.   But you can bet that such barriers will soon fall.

7.   Even as barriers fall and the use of profanities and obscenities in films and magazines abounds, the bar is being raised to public saltiness in political figures.

8.   Eventually, as trade barriers fall, Ford hopes these factories will grow and form an integrated production system.

9.   For instance, as tariff and non-tariff barriers have fallen, there has been an increase in the use of anti-dumping and countervail actions.