1.   Remaining barriers include a judicial system that discriminates against foreign companies and hurdles to foreign involvement in the retailing and wholesaling industries.

2.   The barriers include war, the logistics of immunizing millions of unvaccinated children, and all but nonexistent national vaccine programs in several African nations.

3.   The barriers include too few networking opportunities, a shortage of child-friendly work schedules, as well as persistent stereotypes and cultural biases.

4.   Those potential barriers include designing its own microcode for the first time.

5.   Bureaucratic barriers include one involving the import of building materials.

6.   Lang said the barriers include the difficulty some black residents have in getting home mortgage loans and breaking long-standing traditions that some neighborhoods are white and others are black.

7.   Those barriers include the high costs of translating information into Japanese and restrictions on selling certain kinds of financial instruments common overseas.